Watch the moment the Trumps greet King Charles and Queen Camilla
King Charles and Queen Camilla begin their state visit to the United States after being welcomed by President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
- President Trump said his parents have been married for 63 years, but he and Melania Trump won’t last that long.
- Trump married Melania when he was 58 years old.
- Jimmy Kimmel joked that President Trump should be fired for this comment.
President Donald Trump has joked that his marriage to First Lady Melania Trump won’t last as long as his parents’ marriage.
The president addressed a crowd at the White House during a daylong visit by King Charles III and Queen Camilla. He remembered his mother’s admiration for King Charles, and later came to admire his parents’ long marriage.
“They were married for 63 years. If you don’t mind, excuse me,” Trump said, then turned to the first lady, who was sitting directly behind him. “That’s a record we’re not going to get, darling. I’m sorry, it’s not going to work out that way. We’re going to be good, but we’re not going to be that good.”
The apparent joke about his age comes just days after Trump called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired for telling a joke about the age difference between Donald Trump and Melania Trump. If the president and first lady don’t live to be 63, how long will they be married? Here’s what you need to know:
How long have Melania and Donald Trump been married?
Donald Trump and Melania Trump have been married for 21 years. The two married on January 22, 2005, when Melania Knauss was 34 and Trump 58.
President Trump is currently 79 years old and first lady Melania Trump is 56 years old. The couple would have to live to be 121 and 98 years old, respectively, to celebrate 63 years of marriage.
Trump was married twice before Melania. His marriage to Ivana Trump lasted about 15 years, and his marriage to Marla Maples lasted about six years.
What did Jimmy Kimmel say about Melania Trump?
Kimmel joked during his April 23 “Alternative White House Correspondents Dinner” segment, two days before the actual event in Washington, D.C., that it was about Melania Trump that spurred the backlash from the White House, but the event ended prematurely in chaos with gunfire outside the dining room.
Kimmel said: “So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have the glow of a pregnant widow.”
In an April 27 Truth social post, President Trump called Kimmel’s comments a “despicable call to violence” and called for Kimmel to be fired.
“[It was]obviously a joke about their age difference and the look of joy I see on her face every time we’re together,” Kimmel countered on April 27. “It was a very light joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than me.”
Kimmel compared his joke to the president’s comments during the king’s April 28 monologue.
“Wait a minute, was he just joking about his own death?” Kimmel asked after playing a clip about President Trump’s comments. “He should be fired for that! Only Donald Trump would fire me for making a joke about his own retirement and then go out the next day and make a joke about his own retirement!”
USA TODAY previously contacted the White House about Kimmel’s comments and was directed to the X post by White House communications director Stephen Chan, who called Kimmel a “(expletive) person” and called on ABC to fire him.
Kimmel’s show was briefly taken off the air in September following his comments about the Republican response to the murder of Charlie Kirk. President Trump had previously called for the firing of late-night TV hosts, including Kimmel. On April 28, the Federal Communications Commission issued an order saying it was investigating Disney, ABC’s parent company, for “possible violations of the Communications Act of 1934 and FCC rules, including the FCC’s prohibition on unlawful discrimination.”
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