Trump Outrage at Kimmel Quip Rings Hollow After His Own Jokes At Melania’s Expense | EUROtoday

As President Donald Trump and first girl Melania Trump proceed to name for comic Jimmy Kimmel to be fired for the “expectant widow” joke he made final week, the commander-in-chief could wish to test his personal checkered historical past of creating jokes at his spouse’s expense.

During his first time period within the White House, Donald Trump made a joke in the identical vein as Kimmel’s, saying that Melania Trump wouldn’t essentially be unhappy if he have been to die.

“His wife cried her eyes out when I met her at the hospital that fateful day, I mean, not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn’t,” Trump mentioned at a 2019 personal fundraiser, referring to the 2017 capturing of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

Kimmel’s unique joke — made Thursday, effectively earlier than Saturday’s WHCD — was a part of a mock stand-up routine, with Kimmel pretending to carry out because the “alternate” host of the occasion.

“So I thought, why not … do some of the jokes a comedian might do if our president wasn’t a trembling drama queen who’s scared of comedy?” Kimmel mentioned Thursday in his lead-up to the bit.

“Look at Melania, so beautiful,” the host then mentioned through the phase. “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

Following Saturday’s capturing, each the president and first girl referred to as for Kimmel to be fired.

“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” Melania Trump wrote on X Monday.

Donald Trump rapidly backed his spouse in his personal Truth Social submit later that Monday.

“Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC,” he wrote.

This just isn’t the primary time the president has pushed for Kimmel’s firing. ABC suspended Kimmel final yr for feedback he made in regards to the suspect within the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr introduced on Tuesday that the company could be conducting an unprecedented early license assessment of Disney’s eight owned-and-operated ABC stations.