By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2026-06-16 17:37:24 | Updated at 2026-06-16 23:20:18
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Jimmy Kimmel made a stomach-turning crack about Donald Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka and First Lady Melania on Monday.
The quip was offered up during Kimmel's nightly monologue.
UFC announcer Jon Anik had mistakenly billed Melania as 'First Lady Ivanka' to viewers of UFC Freedom 250 the night before. The event fell on Trump's 80th birthday.
Kimmel said as the clip cut: 'The First Lady Ivanka? What?'
He quipped: 'I guess somebody's birthday wish came true.'
The joke referenced Trump's long record of comments about 44-year-old Ivanka's looks and physique.
Trump told radio host Howard Stern in 2004 that it was OK for him to refer to the then-20 something as 'a piece of a**.'
In 2006, during an appearance on The View, Trump said alongside his daughter, 'I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.'
The quip about Ivanka and Melania was offered during Jimmy Kimmel's Monday monologue
Kimmel set the joke up with a clip of UFC commentator mixing up First Lady Melania and Trump's 44-year-old daughter on Sunday
It's the latest low-blow from Kimmel, who joked that Melania exuded 'a glow like an expectant widow' in April.
More calls for Kimmel to be taken off the air ensued, months after the host faced flak for a remark he made members of MAGA in the wake Charlie Kirk's death.
Melania saw the April sketch as 'hateful and violent,' she said in a statement.
Kimmel maintained the joke was a nod to the May-December nature of their relationship and the first lady's at-time icy demeanor.
Kimmel needled Trump some more over the weekend by offering a sarcastic Happy Birthday message on Instagram that parodied a card the President was reported to have sent Jeffrey Epstein 23 years ago, which Trump denies.
Trump's former relationship with Epstein has been fodder for Kimmel for months, as the administration continues to face criticism for its handling of related case files.
'We're not just dying of natural causes. We're being poisoned,' Kimmel said in an interview with Vulture published earlier this month.
Ivanka was in the crowd at the UFC event but was not on camera when Anik was speaking
Kimmel said as the clip cut: 'The First Lady Ivanka? What? I guess somebody's birthday wish came true'
The criticism has not been confined to the Trump family, however, with conservatives like reality-star-turned-LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt and new Homeland Security head Markwayne Mullin also facing regular mockery.
The Daily Mail has approached the White House for comment.
Kimmel's current contract is set to expire in May of next year, ABC has previously said.
