When Melania Trump speaks, people listen.

Why?

She’s the First Lady, for starters. Secondly, she often doesn’t say much. She stays out of the limelight when possible, and glossy women’s magazines don’t dare interview or profile her.

That would “normalize” a Trump, and they can’t have that. 

So when Melania Trump skewered Jimmy Kimmel for his assassination humor, it mattered. The one word she used in her attack shouldn’t be overlooked.

Coward. Kimmel is a coward of the first order.

‘People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate … A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. 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’s right over and again, but let’s focus on that word.

Coward.

When was the last time Kimmel talked to a right-leaning interviewer, someone who might challenge him on his far-left opinions? Dare we save never, or not over the last decade?

He likely wouldn’t appear on “Club Random” with Bill Maher, a host who holds liberals’ feet to the fire with facts and reason. Just ask David Cross how that feels.

Good luck dragging Kimmel onto that platform.

What about “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Has the show invited any actual conservatives over the past few years? We’re not talking turncoats like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Liz Cheney, mind you.

Of course not.

And lashing out at President Trump is the very opposite of bravery. Everyone does it across the culture. It’s subversive not to follow that path.

“Subversive” is a word that will never be attached to the late-night host.

Kimmel hides behind ABC, his liberal entertainment base and the corrupt, biased Legacy Media. He is a coward, and the First Lady nailed him with that word.

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The Enlightenment ideals of individual liberty and voluntary exchange that inspired America’s founders also laid the foundation of modern economics. Yet two and a half centuries later, persistent policy blunders — protectionist trade barriers, ballooning national debt, and stubborn inflation — reveal how far we have strayed from the Scotsman’s insights, endangering the principles upon which our republic was founded.

“The Savant” can’t catch a break.

The Apple TV+ original was slated to debut Sept. 26, but the assassination of Charlie Kirk appeared to give the streamer pause. The show is loosely based on a real hate-crime investigator, played by Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain.

Her character goes digitally undercover to smoke out White Nationalists, all the while trying to lead a normal life on the home front.

Team Apple wasn’t clear about the reasons for the show’s delay, but the timing suggested some kind of Kirk connection. The conservative leader was killed Sept. 10, with all signs pointing to alleged killer Tyler Robinson.

(Unless you’re a certain unhinged podcaster)

Perhaps “The Savant” demonized a Kirk-like figure, and that wouldn’t be a good look following the pundit’s murder? Or was there something in the show’s DNA that would make it problematic to run as scheduled?

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This critic was able to screen several episodes in advance, and all signs pointed to “no, not really.” The show isn’t as political as some TV fare, like HBO Max’s “The Pitt” which jams progressive talking points into its storylines.

“The Savant’s” delay still seems curious, although studios have been quick to pull violent entertainment when real-world violence erupts.

One example? USA Network’s “Shooter” got yanked in 2016 after an actual sniper targeted cops in Dallas.

Sometimes a movie studio is quick to pause a film’s release if it appears too hot to handle, culturally speaking. Remember how “The Hunt,” a film pitting conservatives and liberals against each other, got bumped from the calendar?

Yet “The Savant” is now back on schedule, slated for a July release. Now, there’s another real-world problem facing the series.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a group that allegedly smokes out White Nationalists, was caught allegedly cutting checks for some of the very haters it supposedly targets.

It’s a shocking turn of events, and the group’s fingerprints are allegedly all over the 2017 Unite the Right rally. That imbroglio left one woman killed and allowed the media and Democrats (but we repeat ourselves) to unfairly malign President Trump.

The “very fine people” hoax remains an indelible stain on modern journalism.

A series focused on White Nationalists looks even more odd given the SPLC headlines. Imagine Chastain’s character tracks down a potentially violent Neo-Nazi only to learn he was funded by an SPLC-like group.

That isn’t the Narrative Hollywood wants to share. Last year’s “Sovereign” is another project that captures the industry’s zeal for right-leaning ghouls.

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It appears the supply of racial bigotry isn’t meeting the progressive demand, another issue plaguing “The Savant.”

The other problem facing the show, one not directly tethered to a single news event? The vast majority of political violence is being conducted by the Left and/or radical Islamic types.

It’s so overwhelming even The far-Left Atlantic admitted as such last year.

Remember those burning Tesla dealerships? The antisemitic attacks on Jewish people in a post-Oct. 7 world? Liberal college students raging against Israel and attacking Jewish students? The multiple assassination attempts on President Trump?

And it’s only gotten worse of late. The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday with plans to take out Trump officials (and likely the president himself) is a No Kings progressive. 

Cole Allen’s manifesto reads like a cross between a Jimmy Kimmel monologue and MS NOW programming.

Here’s betting “The Savant,” should it survive to season 2, won’t frame an episode around that inconvenient truth. That’s assuming Apple TV+ doesn’t just mothball the show entirely.

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