President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump issued separate calls for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be fired over jokes he made days before a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
In a post on Truth Social Monday, April, 27, President Trump blasted Kimmel for referring to the first lady as an “expectant widow” during his monologue last week.
“I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said but, this is something far beyond the pale,” Trump wrote. “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”
The president’s statement came hours after First Lady Melania Trump posted on X calling Kimmel’s words “hateful and violent rhetoric intended to divide our country.”
“His monologue about my family isn’t comedy—his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she wrote before urging ABC to “take a stand” against the comedian.
Neither ABC nor its parent company, Disney, had publicly responded to the Trumps’ demands as of press time.
The First Family’s pleas came on the same day the suspect in Saturday’s shooting, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, was charged with attempting to assassinate the president. He also faces charges of interstate transportation of weapons and discharge of a firearm during a violent crime.
According to investigators, Allen traveled by train from California to Washington, DC, and was armed with a 12 gauge pump action shotgun, a .38-caliber semi-automatic pistol, and three knives. He has no prior arrests or convictions.
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