Donald Trump Jokes About the Expiration Date on His Marriage After Slamming Jimmy Kimmel for Calling Melania an 'Expectant Widow'

Joseph KonigTue, April 28, 2026 at 5:12 PM UTC

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on April 28; Jimmy Kimmel delivering a mock WHCD monologue on April 23Credit: Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty; Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty -

President Donald Trump joked his marriage to first lady Melania Trump won’t make it as long as his parents’ 63-year marriage, just one day after demanding ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel for touching on similar themes in a monologue

“That’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling, I’m sorry. Just not going to work out that way,” said Donald, who was 58 when he married his 24-years-younger wife

Kimmel recently described Melania as an “expectant widow” during a late-night segment, later defending it as a “very light roast joke” about her husband's old age that was recorded two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

President Donald Trump joked his marriage to first lady Melania Trump won’t make it as long as his parents’ 63-year marriage, just one day after demanding ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made last week apparently mocking the president's old age.

Trump made the remark at a White House event on Tuesday, April 28, as he recounted how his mother, Mary, had a “crush” on a young King Charles decades ago.

Queen Camilla, King Charles III, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump wave on April 28Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty

During an event welcoming King Charles and Queen Camilla on the White House's South Lawn, the president asked the crowd to “excuse me, if you don’t mind,” and turned to the first lady who was sitting on stage behind him.

After noting that his own parents were married for more than six decades, Donald, 79, then told Melania, 56, “That’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling, I’m sorry. Just not going to work out that way.”

“We’ll do well," the president added, "but we’re not going to do that well.”

The Trumps married in January 2005, when Donald was 58 and Melania was 34. The president would need to live to 121 to match the marital longevity of his parents, Mary and Fred.

Melania appeared to smile at the joke and the British royals both laughed.

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From left: Elizabeth Trump Grau, Mary MacLeod Trump, Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss at Mar-a-Lago in 1999Credit: Davidoff Studios/Getty

The remark came as Trump and his administration are pushing for ABC to fire Kimmel over jokes he made involving the first lady, in which he said she glows like an "expectant widow" while delivering a fake roast on April 23 like the ones they do at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Melania issued a rare rebuke of Kimmel on Monday, April 28, calling the comedian a “coward” and demanding ABC “take a stand” against him.

The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host defended the jokes during his Monday show, arguing the “expectant widow” comment was a “very light roast joke” recorded days before the actual White House Correspondents’ Dinner turned into an active shooter situation on Saturday, April 25.

The president and first lady were evacuated from the event after a gunman attempted to storm the hotel ballroom, allegedly with the intent to kill the president and his top administration officials.

Kimmel did express sympathy for Melania during his show on Monday night by saying he was “sorry that you and the president and everyone in that room on Saturday went through that. I really am," adding that it must have been "traumatic and scary" for attendees.

Mary MacLeod Trump and Frederick Christ Trump at the Plaza Hotel in New York in May 1987Credit: Sonia Moskowitz/Getty

Fred and Mary Trump married in 1936 and had five children together. Fred died in 1999. Mary, who was born and raised in Scotland, died a year later in 2000.

“My mother had a crush on Charles, can you believe it?” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday before pointing to the heavens. “I wonder what she’s thinking right now.”

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