Jimmy Kimmel may be ready to give Melania Trump's new Prime Video series a chance in an unlikely twist of fate.
The comedian joked that Amazon had found a use for the "leftovers" from the first lady's documentary, "Melania," on the Nov. 10 "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" episode.
"Melania is about to become the first first lady with her own TV show while in office," the comedian said of the two-part follow-up, "Melania, The Series" (streaming Nov. 20). "I have to be honest, it looks kind of good," he told his audience.
He even threw in the idea of her spending a month living with comedian Nathan Fielder, a nod to the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything." Then he played the trailer his own show had made.
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In the spoof, a voice impersonating Melania Trump explains that there's money to be made before her husband, President Donald Trump, leaves office. The impersonator jokes, "So why not make the one more grift for sad fat people that loves my husband?"
The narrator also describes the couple's son, Barron Trump: "Barron is son. He is tall person. Some peoples are not tall. But he is."
"I like to wave. I like to shake hand," the narration says before showing a video of Melania meeting the talking humanoid robot names "Figure 03" in March. "I get to meet robot. Robot is funny and strong. Robot can wave like me, Melania."
The mock trailer signs off by declaring that the series "seemed like a good idea at the time."
Prime Video's official trailer, released Nov. 6, pairs footage of Melania Trump and Barron Trump with the first lady's own words. "He's my priority. He will always be my priority," she says. The first lady is an executive producer of the series, which follows her return to the White House. Brett Ratner, who directed the film, also directed both episodes.
Kimmel dubbed the original movie a "$75 million bribe-umentary." Amazon MGM Studios paid $40 million to license the film and series and reportedly spent another $35 million marketing the movie.
Kimmel calls on Trump to resign after the midterms
In his show's 4,000th episode in September, Kimmel joked despite all effort's his show was still airing.
"This show premiered after the Super Bowl in January 2003. There are those who said we would never last this long," Kimmel said. "There are even those who used the regulatory might of the FCC to unconstitutionally try to make sure we didn't last this long. But we did it the hard way, Brendan, and we're still here!"
Kimmel was referring to FCC chair Brendan Carr, who in 2025 pressured ABC to take action against the comedian over comments he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk, leading to Kimmel's temporary suspension.
On mid-term election night, he called Democrats' gains a "blue tsunami." The next night, he urged Trump to resign, telling him, "Just quit. Nobody wants you. Even you don't want to be president anymore."
Kimmel worked the first lady into his Nov. 5 monologue, too. After the president designated the Oval Office a national monument, Kimmel predicted its decorations would come down in 2029 "faster than Melania moves back to New York."
Contributing: Brendan Morrow, Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY
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