• Jennifer Lopez, 56, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on May 27 and revealed she has been “crying for two months” over twins Max and Emme, 18, graduating from high school — one of them the following day
• Max and Emme, whom she shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony, attend two different high schools and will head off to two different colleges in the fall
• Writing yearbook ads for each of them took her two days: “When I tell you, the tears…”
• She plans to help them move into their dorms herself — "I do all the things" — but is secretly hoping they miss home quickly: "That’s my plan"
• On her love life post-Ben Affleck divorce: "I’m good right now. I’m happy"

Jennifer Lopez sat down with Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night and barely made it through the subject of her kids.

The 56-year-old appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and opened up about twins Max and Emme — both 18, both wrapping up high school, both about to leave home. "Tomorrow, one of them graduates," she told Kimmel. "Don’t talk about it ‘cos we start crying. I’ve been crying for two months."

The twins, whom Lopez shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony, go to two different high schools and will attend two different colleges in the fall. "It’s fine," she told Us Weekly via the interview. "I want them to be happy, go where they want to go, and do what they want to do."

One of the harder tasks in the lead-up: writing their high school yearbook ads. Lopez said sitting down to put her feelings into words took her two full days. "When I tell you, the tears…" she said, trailing off.

When Kimmel asked if she’d be the one actually moving them into their college dorms, there was no hesitation. "Absolutely. Oh, yeah. I do all the things," she told E! Online. "We have sheets at the house. We’re gonna pack up their rooms here and they’re going to take all the things that they want to take to their dorms."

Then comes her actual strategy for surviving empty nest syndrome: "They’re gonna get there and realize their dorms are too small. They’re going to miss home I hope and want to come back real soon. That’s my plan."

She was quick to clarify she isn’t dreading the transition so much as she’s proud of it. "I remember being that age and thinking I couldn’t wait to get out in the world and do my thing," she said. "All year people have been asking me, ‘Oh, they’re going away to college, is it going to be terrible?’ No, it’s going to be great. I want them to go out there. I want them to do what they want to do. They have big dreams. They have things they want to do."

The Kimmel appearance also touched briefly on her personal life. Lopez and Ben Affleck finalized their divorce in 2025, and she had a simple answer for how she’s doing: "I’m good right now. I’m happy."

Over Memorial Day weekend, Lopez shared a rare look at the twins on Instagram — posting photos from a backyard gathering in Los Angeles that showed her posing with Max in front of an American flag and hugging Emme. "Spending the day with the people I love," she wrote in the caption.

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• Jimmy Kimmel, 58, devoted his Wednesday monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to roasting Spencer Pratt’s bid for Los Angeles mayor ahead of the June 2 primary
• Kimmel called Pratt "another narcissist looking for attention" and compared his political rise directly to Donald Trump’s 2015 presidential run: "It’s exactly what Donald Trump did"
• A new detail from Kimmel’s monologue: Pratt has been staying at the Hotel Bel-Air at $1,500 a night while running a campaign video claiming he lives in a trailer on his burned-out Pacific Palisades lot
• Pratt lost his home in the 2025 California wildfires and entered the race against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass; polls show him at 22% support
• Pratt responded on X after the monologue aired: "When people criticize me for not having experience, I’m a lifelong Angeleno who’s seen my home city waste away under poor leadership. THAT is my experience."

Jimmy Kimmel looked out at Los Angeles on Wednesday night and saw something he wanted to talk about for a long time.

The late-night host devoted a large chunk of his opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to Spencer Pratt’s campaign for L.A. mayor — and didn’t hold back. Pratt, 42, entered the race against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the aftermath of the 2025 California wildfires, after he and wife Heidi Montag lost their Pacific Palisades home in the disaster. With the June 2 primary now less than a week away, Kimmel clearly felt the moment required comment.

“This city, let’s be honest, this city is a mess,” Kimmel told his audience. “That is something that became especially obvious during the fires. But the people running the city — when you say ‘This city is a mess,’ they go, ‘No, actually it isn’t and we’re doing a lot.’ And then we look around and say, ‘I’m not seeing it.'”

From there, Kimmel walked through exactly how he thinks Pratt got here. A reality star loses his house. People start agreeing with him for the first time. He enjoys the attention. He starts to think maybe he should be mayor.

“Since he’s a moderately famous person, he gets attention. He’s on the news. He’s on social media. For the first time in his life, people are agreeing with what he has to say,” per Us Weekly. “He’s angry about the same problems a lot of people here are angry about. Does he have solutions to those problems? No. But at least he’s acknowledging that they are problems.”

Polls currently put Pratt at 22% support. Kimmel noted that those same supporters have been giving him campaign money — some of which Pratt immediately spent on a $1,500-a-night room at the Hotel Bel-Air. That, while Pratt runs campaign videos claiming he lives in a trailer on his burned-out lot. “Which he is not,” Kimmel said flatly.

The Trump Comparison

The Trump parallel was the centerpiece of Kimmel’s argument. “You think this guy wants to sit through city council meetings all day talking about zoning? No, he wants to be a star again. And guess what? It’s working. He’s everywhere. People show up to see him speak. He’s doing interviews. He’s making deals for a new reality show. It’s exactly what Donald Trump did,” per Rolling Stone.

Kimmel’s read on Trump’s 2015 campaign: “Donald Trump ran for president because his TV show was going to get canceled and he wanted to be relevant again. Now, the difference between Donald Trump and this guy is Donald Trump actually had a job before he was on a reality show. He wasn’t good at the job. He got all the money for it from his dad. The only thing he was good at was promoting himself, and it turned out that was enough. And as a result, we are now going to have to spend the next three decades digging out of this giant hole he put us in. But this hole now has given birth to Spencer Pratt, who is running for mayor. Another narcissist looking for attention.”

Kimmel also brought up Pratt and Montag’s well-documented history of spending — the couple previously admitted to blowing through $10 million on extravagant purchases, including a crystal collection Pratt estimated at $1 million. Pratt’s current side business: selling healing crystals on a site called prattdaddy.com. “That alone should be disqualifying,” Kimmel said.

“The mayor of L.A. is in charge of a $14 billion annual budget. Spencer Pratt is not the person who should be in charge of [it],” he added. “That’s the guy 22% of you want to be mayor of Los Angeles when the Olympics come to town. You gotta be kidding me with this?”

Pratt pushed back on X shortly after the episode aired: “When people criticize me for not having experience, I’m a lifelong Angeleno who’s seen my home city waste away under poor leadership. THAT is my experience. Just like you. Vote for LA. Vote today.”

Kimmel closed by telling viewers that even if they don’t want to vote for Bass, “you better find somebody else to vote for and preferably someone who isn’t wasting our time and money to get himself back on television.”

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• Jimmy Kimmel texted fellow late-night hosts “Oh boy” after Melania Trump publicly called for ABC to fire him
• John Oliver and Jimmy Fallon revealed the group chat moment during Stephen Colbert’s final-weeks celebration on May 11
• The drama stems from Kimmel’s “expectant widow” joke about Melania, made days before a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
• Kimmel later defended the joke as a “light roast” about the 23-year age gap between Donald and Melania Trump
• ABC stood by Kimmel, and he appeared at Disney’s upfront event this week joking about the whole ordeal

When Melania Trump went on social media demanding that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night host’s first move wasn’t a press statement or a call to his lawyer. He opened a group chat with his fellow comedians and typed two words: “Oh boy.”

That detail came out Monday night during a star-studded episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where Kimmel was joined by Seth Meyers, John Oliver, and Jimmy Fallon for a reunion of the Strike Force Five crew — all gathering to celebrate Colbert’s final weeks on air before his May 21 finale. At one point, Colbert asked the group if they’d ever imagined doing jobs that the president of the United States would have “strong feelings about.”

That’s when Kimmel couldn’t help himself.

“You know what’s even weirder? Doing a job that his wife has strong feelings about,” he said, drawing instant laughter. “That’s where it crosses over.”

“Most of us have avoided that part,” Meyers deadpanned.

Oliver then let the group chat secret out. “It’s an amazing thing to get a text from Jimmy saying ‘Oh boy,’ and then a picture of Melania mad at him,” he said. “What a way to start the day.”

Fallon, never one to let a moment pass, admitted he had a slightly different reaction. “And then I sent a text to you guys, and I said, ‘Hey, don’t be mad at me, but I liked it.’ I think she’s got a point.”

How the ‘Expectant Widow’ Joke Became a White House Crisis

The joke that started everything aired on April 23, when Kimmel performed an “alternative” White House Correspondents’ Dinner segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Standing in for the real event — which the late-night community has largely boycotted — he looked into the camera and said: “Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

Two days later, a gunman opened fire at the hotel hosting the actual White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., in what authorities described as an attempt targeting the president and members of his administration. The timing turned Kimmel’s joke — a riff on the 23-year age gap between Donald, 79, and Melania, 56 — into something the White House was determined to treat as far more sinister.

Melania posted publicly, writing in part: “It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community?” She also called him a “coward” and said “people like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”

The president went further. On Truth Social, Trump wrote: “When is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over one of the Lowest Rated shows on Television. People are angry. It better be soon!!!” In a separate post, he called it “something far beyond the pale” and demanded Kimmel be “immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”

MAGA influencers piled on. Conservative talk shows spent weeks dissecting the joke. The FCC, notably, announced it was investigating Disney-owned broadcast networks over their DEI practices — a move that came just one day after Trump’s firing demand, and which Disney pushed back against, saying the agency’s actions “threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech.”

Kimmel didn’t back down. He addressed the controversy on his April 27 monologue, calling it “obviously a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together.” He added: “It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not by any stretch a call to assassination.” And then he turned it back on Melania directly: “I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”

ABC stood by him. The drama, eventually, fizzled.

The “Saddest Part” of Getting Called Out by the White House

Back on Colbert’s couch Monday, Colbert pressed Kimmel on what it actually feels like to wake up and see that kind of attention rolling in from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

“The saddest part of it,” Kimmel said, “is that I realize in those moments that the only four people who care are sitting right here. It takes 12 hours for the rest of the people in my life to even figure out that anything’s going on.”

He paused for effect. “Two hours after that, a guy I used to work with sent me a text. He’s like, ‘Hey, do you know a real estate lawyer?'”

The room fell apart. It’s a very Kimmel observation — the absurdity that a presidential call for your firing barely registers outside a very small circle of people who are, at this point, almost used to it.

Back to Business at Disney’s Upfront

That same sense of humor was on full display the next day, when Kimmel appeared at Disney’s annual advertising upfront presentation on Tuesday — very much still employed, very much still cracking jokes.

“I didn’t think I’d ever see you guys again either,” he told the room of advertisers, acknowledging the elephant directly. He noted that his ratings are actually up this year, crediting “our partners in Washington” for the boost.

On the subject of ABC pulling shows from the air, he quipped: “Usually in order for ABC to pull you off the air, you have to throw a chair at your Mormon boyfriend” — a pointed reference to Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul, whose Bachelorette season was shelved amid her own controversy.

“Yes, the president has tried to get me twice over the last six months — that’s one way to look at it,” Kimmel said. “You could also say I’ve generated unparalleled engagement across a variety of platforms.”

He closed his roughly ten-minute monologue with a line that got the room: “Hiring me 24 years ago, just from a purely mathematical standpoint, was the worst personnel decision that Disney Corporation has ever made.”

Then, near the end: “That’s it for me — probably forever.”

It’s the kind of joke that only lands if you’re not actually worried. And right now, at least, Kimmel doesn’t seem to be.

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• Jimmy Kimmel compared Trump’s Iran negotiation style to bad sex during his Wednesday night monologue
• Kimmel also mocked Trump’s bizarre Oval Office remarks to children about transgender athletes
• The feud with the White House is escalating — both Donald and Melania Trump are publicly calling for Kimmel’s firing
• The FCC has ordered a review of ABC’s station licenses amid pressure from the Trump administration
• Constitutional law experts say any legal threats against Kimmel are “utterly frivolous” and protected by the First Amendment

Jimmy Kimmel had a lot to work with this week — and he used every bit of it.

In his Wednesday night monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the late-night host unloaded on President Donald Trump’s ongoing negotiations with Iran, delivering what may be his most memorable line of the year. “For him, a negotiation, it’s like sex,” Kimmel said. “He’s bad at it. It mostly consists of flailing around. And he can only do it for a short amount of time before he starts yelling that he’s finished.”

He opened the bit with a pointed question about the Strait of Hormuz — “I wonder which will open first, the Strait of Hormuz or his ballroom?” — before settling into a full takedown of the White House’s handling of the Iran conflict. Kimmel mocked reports that a deal could be imminent, noting that the details were “still very much in flux. As in, what the flux are we doing over there?”

He also drew a pointed comparison to the Obama-era nuclear deal — the one Trump spent years calling the worst deal in history — noting that the proposed new agreement would reportedly include a uranium enrichment moratorium of more than 10 years, shorter than the Obama deal’s 15-year restrictions. “And now he’s going to top it by making an even worse worst deal in history,” Kimmel said. “It’s called ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Folks, you should read the book.”

Kimmel also took aim at the administration’s ever-shifting vocabulary around the conflict. “One of the most ridiculous things about this war is that half the time they talk about it, they don’t call it a war because you’re supposed to get approval from Congress to go to war, which Trump did not do,” he said. After playing a clip of Trump describing the situation, Kimmel tracked the linguistic evolution in real time: “First it was an excursion, then it was a mini war. And now it’s a skirmish. Next month it’ll be a tiff. It’ll be a $200 billion tiff.”

“This Man Is Insane”

The Iran riff came a night after Kimmel was equally floored by Trump’s Tuesday Oval Office event — a ceremony to reinstate the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, which quickly went somewhere else entirely.

Surrounded by grade-school children and administration officials, Trump riffed on Iran, why he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize, the planned UFC fight on the White House lawn, and then — pivoting sharply — “transgender mutilization.” He caught himself mid-rant, told the kids “don’t listen to this,” and then kept going anyway.

“This man is insane, OK?” Kimmel said flatly. “He made up a word, ‘mutilization,’ and he’s telling children about it. Next thing you know, he’ll be telling them his favorite story, the tale of the lady weightlifter.”

Sure enough, in the next clip, Trump was doing exactly that — repeating a story from his campaign trail days about a transgender weightlifter, directing it at a preteen boy. “You’ll never compete against women in powerlifting,” Trump told the child. “Do you think you can take me in a fight?”

Kimmel’s response was pure deadpan: “Very, very normal. Just a totally lucid, very rational, clear-minded, level-headed person sharing his thoughts on gender reassignment with a group of young kids. That’s our guy.”

Kimmel also flagged a moment where Trump appeared to suggest a young girl in attendance — a volleyball player — was too short for the sport and should try soccer instead. The host’s reaction was, again, withering sarcasm.

The Feud That Won’t Quit

All of this is unfolding against the backdrop of the most intense stretch of the long-running Kimmel-Trump feud. It started in earnest on April 23, when Kimmel joked during a “pretend roast” segment that Melania Trump had “a glow like an expectant widow” — a line he later said was “a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am.” Two days later, a gunman was charged with attempting to assassinate the president at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Melania issued a rare public statement, calling Kimmel’s rhetoric “hateful and violent” and demanding action from ABC. “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” she wrote. “A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.”

Trump, for his part, called Kimmel “a lowlife, whether he apologized or not” during an appearance on Newsmax. White House communications director Steven Cheung called for Kimmel to be fired “immediately” and “shunned for the rest of his life.” A White House spokesperson told The Daily Beast this week that “nobody in their right mind wants to watch or listen to Jimmy Kimmel, who is a talentless hack with failing ratings.”

The pressure hasn’t been just rhetorical. The FCC last week ordered a review of ABC’s station licenses, with the Trump-aligned agency citing possible violations of federal law — a move widely seen as connected to the administration’s campaign against the network. Disney, ABC’s parent company, is facing mounting pressure on multiple fronts.

Kimmel has not backed down. On Monday, he poked fun at an uncaptioned photo Trump posted on Truth Social showing Melania smiling. “At 11:04, he posted this even more unbelievable picture of Melania smiling,” Kimmel said. “I don’t know the last time we saw that.” He also riffed on Trump’s claim — made at a Florida retirement community — that Melania “hates” when he dances to “Y.M.C.A.” at rallies. “What a buzzkill,” Kimmel said. “Why would she hate that? It’s so much fun. He’s just trying to have fun.”

On Wednesday, he also mocked Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s upcoming meeting with Pope Leo XIV, noting that the pope had publicly rebuked Trump’s stance on nuclear weapons. “Marco Rubio plans to sit down with Pope Leo to discuss the attacks from our president, the war on Iran, and on a personal level: why God didn’t answer his prayers for smaller ears,” Kimmel joked. He then showed viewers a close-up of Rubio wearing oversized Florsheim shoes — reportedly a gift from Trump that Rubio was too afraid to decline — and said incredulously, “This is the guy who’s going to confront the pope.”

As for the legal threats swirling around him, constitutional law scholar Robert McWhirter, author of Fixing the Framers’ Failure, is unambiguous about where Kimmel stands. “From the very founding of the American republic, ridiculing public officials hasn’t merely been tolerated, it’s been explicitly protected by the First Amendment,” McWhirter said. “These lawsuits are pure theater. It’s a show of claimed offense designed to deter speech.”

Kimmel, for his part, seems to have figured that out. When asked recently about his apparent knack for making jokes that land him in hot water, he offered his own explanation: “Every day in the morning, I wake up, I make coffee, and then I look into the future to see which events have yet to occur and then we write jokes we know are going to make trouble.”

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