Fox News' Brian Kilmeade has suggested that First Lady Melania Trump fired off her scathing response to a Jimmy Kimmel joke without consulting her husband. On Monday, April 27, two days after Cole Allen's alleged assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, Melania gave a rare public statement and ripped the 58-year-old host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! for a comment he made on Thursday, April 23, that she interpreted as "hateful and violent rhetoric." Jimmy joked on Thursday that Melania had the "glow of an expectant widow.