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\u201cWhy is this happening today?\u201d Kimmel asked on his late night show Thursday, before referencing the president. \u201cHe spent the past six weeks trying to bomb this Epstein story out of the headlines. Two days after the ceasefire, she puts it right back on top. She must really hate him. I don\u2019t know how else to explain it.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cSo then a reporter gets hold of Trump, calls his phone, he says, \u2018I didn\u2019t know anything about this statement Melania made.\u2019 He didn\u2019t know she was gonna do it before she did it, which shows you just how smoothly things are running over there,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cFor whatever reason, she didn\u2019t ask, she didn\u2019t give him a head-up, she just went right out in front of the cameras and fired away.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
During her remarks, the first lady also called on Congress to hold public hearings focused on survivors of Epstein\u2019s abuse. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cGive these victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress with the power of sworn testimony,\u201d she said. \u201cEach and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public, if she wishes, and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the congressional record.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Watch Kimmel\u2019s full opening monologue from Thursday night\u2019s show: <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWhy is this happening today?\u201d Kimmel asked on his late night show Thursday, before referencing the president. \u201cHe spent the past six weeks trying to bomb this Epstein story out of the headlines. Two days after the ceasefire, she puts it right back on top. She must really hate him. I don\u2019t know how else […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2368144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,22942,23060,31122],"class_list":["post-2368143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-melania-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Jabs-Melania-Trump-Over-Epstein-Statement.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368145,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368143\/revisions\/2368145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2368144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}