Kimmel Says 'No One Was Talking About' Melania-Epstein Rumors He Talked About

Alex Christy
April 10th, 2026 10:00 AM
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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was greatly amused on his Thursday show that First Lady Melania Trump came out to give a speech demanding those tying her to Jeffrey Epstein stop spreading lies about her. According to Kimmel, this was “something no one was talking about," and he “was just now hearing about these lies." However, that was not true.

Kimmel introduced a clip of Melania by declaring, “Speaking of his bedroom, there was a big surprise from the White House today, even to Donald Trump. Melania emerged from the rubble of the East Wing. She brushed the drywall off her business suit and delivered a doozy of a prepared statement demanding that we stop talking about something no one was talking about.”

In the first of a number of clips, Melania demanded, “The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.”

 

 

Kimmel retorted, “Okay. How about tomorrow because I just—I'm just now hearing about these lies. I—could you give me a me-noot to catch up? You know somewhere in the White House, Trump saw this happening. He spit out a whole gallon of Diet Coke and this is already better than her movie. Go on, please.”

A second Melania clip showed her claiming that “I've never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City and Palm Beach.”

Again, Kimmel found the whole thing ironic, “And everywhere. I love how she keeps calling him Epstein like it's an episode of Welcome Back, Kotter or something, and why is this happening today? He's spent the past six weeks trying to bomb this Epstein story out of the headlines. Two days out of the ceasefire, she puts it right back on top.”

Elsewhere, Melania would denounce rumors that she had been on Epstein’s plane and that she visited his island. That would be important because on November 4, 2024—one day before Election Day—Kimmel lamented that “We heard a bombshell audiotape in which Jeffrey Epstein said he was [Donald] Trump's closest friend and shares a bunch of crazy stories. This barely moves the needle. Remember when Mitt Romney went down because he put a dog carrier on the roof of his car?”

 

 

He also reported, “We just got a hundred hours of Jeffrey Epstein saying he and Trump were BFFs, and I didn't even get an alert about it on my phone. I got no texts on this. The Daily Beast published audio clips from interviews Epstein did with the writer Michael Wolff, who took his sweet time releasing this information.”

Still, 2024 Kimmel broke out his Melania voice and added, “Epstein said the first time Trump had sex with Melania was on his own private plane, and if that isn't a storybook romance, I don't know what is. ‘Your father and I were riding on pedophile private jet and he—’ it was the first time she saw his little bag of nuts. It's very sweet.”

Wolff—who is the same guy who spread baseless rumors about President Trump having an affair with then U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley—is currently suing Melania for defamation. However, Melania’s lawyers have successfully gotten The Daily Beast to retract other Wolff-Melania-Epstein-related stories. Jimmy Kimmel is hoping everyone else forgot about his role in spreading such salacious rumors.

Here is a transcript for the April 9, 2026, and November 4, 2024-taped shows:

ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!

4/9/2026

11:40 PM ET

JIMMY KIMMEL: Speaking of his bedroom, there was a big surprise from the White House today, even to Donald Trump. Melania emerged from the rubble of the East Wing. She brushed the drywall off her business suit and delivered a doozy of a prepared statement demanding that we stop talking about something no one was talking about.

MELANIA TRUMP: Good afternoon. The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.

KIMMEL: Okay. How about tomorrow because I just—I'm just now hearing about these lies. I—could you give me a me-noot to catch up? You know somewhere in the White House, Trump saw this happening. He spit out a whole gallon of Diet Coke and this is already better than her movie. Go on, please.

TRUMP: I've never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City and Palm Beach.

KIMMEL: And everywhere. I love how she keeps calling him Epstein like it's an episode of Welcome Back, Kotter or something, and why is this happening today? He's spent the past six weeks trying to bomb this Epstein story out of the headlines. Two days out of the ceasefire, she puts it right back on top.

She must really hate him. I don't know how else to explain it. So, then a reporter gets a hold of Trump, calls his phone, he says “I didn’t know anything about this statement Melania made.” He didn’t know she was going to do it before she did it, which shows just how smoothly things are running over there. For whatever reason she didn't ask, she didn't give him a heads up, she just went right out in front of the cameras and fired away.

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ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!

11/4/2024

12:11 AM ET

JIMMY KIMMEL: We heard a bombshell audiotape in which Jeffrey Epstein said he was Trump's closest friend and shares a bunch of crazy stories. This barely moves the needle. Remember when Mitt Romney went down because he put a dog carrier on the roof of his car?

We just got a hundred hours of Jeffrey Epstein saying he and Trump were BFFs, and I didn't even get an alert about it on my phone. I got no texts on this. The Daily Beast published audio clips from interviews Epstein did with the writer Michael Wolff, who took his sweet time releasing this information.

Epstein said Trump told him he likes to have sex with the wives of his best friends to the point where Epstein described Trump as having no moral compass.

Do you know what kind of a lowlife you have to be, for Jeffrey Epstein to say you have no moral compass? It's like if R. Kelly got mad at you for leaving the toilet seat up, okay?

Epstein said the first time Trump had sex with Melania was on his own private plane, and if that isn't a storybook romance, I don't know what is. [Melania voice] "Your father and I were riding on pedophile private jet and he—" it was the first time she saw his little bag of nuts. It's very sweet.

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