{"id":21951,"date":"2026-04-28T01:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jane-fondas-free-speech-group-defends-kimmel-amid-trump-firing-call-satire-is-not-a-crime\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:22:06","slug":"jane-fondas-free-speech-group-defends-kimmel-amid-trump-firing-call-satire-is-not-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jane-fondas-free-speech-group-defends-kimmel-amid-trump-firing-call-satire-is-not-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Fonda&#8217;s free speech group defends Kimmel amid Trump firing call: &#8216;Satire is not a crime&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A free speech group led by Hollywood star Jane Fonda is defending comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who President Trump and first lady Melania Trump said Monday should lose his late-night hosting gig over a joke last week calling the first lady an &#8220;expectant widow,&#8221; a dig that came just days before the latest assassination attempt against&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5851733-jane-fonda-jimmy-kimmel-whca-dinner-shooting-trump\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free speech group led by Hollywood star Jane Fonda is defending comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who President Trump and first lady Melania Trump said Monday should lose his late-night hosting gig over a joke last week calling the first lady an &#8220;expectant widow,&#8221; a dig that came just days before the latest assassination attempt against&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}