White House Ramps Up Calls For Jimmy Kimmel’s Firing: ‘S**t Human Being’ | EUROtoday

The White House is continuous to push for Jimmy Kimmel’s firing hours after the late-night comic refused to apologize for a joke he made final week about President Donald Trump and first woman Melania Trump.

“ABC needs to fire him immediately and he should be shunned for the rest of his life,” White House communications director Steven Cheung stated of Kimmel in an X submit Tuesday, calling him a “shit human being” for making a “disgusting joke about assassinating the President.”

Cheung additionally scolded Kimmel for “doubling down on that joke instead of doing the decent thing by apologizing.”

Melania Trump has additionally urged the community to terminate Kimmel.

“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 wrote Monday on X. “A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.”

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” she added.

Kimmel joked concerning the first woman’s “expectant widow” glow days earlier than a gunman burst into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that the president was attending on Saturday.

On his present on Monday, the late-night host defended his quip as “a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am.”

Kimmel emphasised that his joke was not “by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.”

Agreeing that hateful and violent rhetoric is one thing to “reject,” the comic then did an Uno reverse on the primary woman.

“I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it,” he added.

Kimmel additionally identified that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had advised Fox News forward of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that there could be “some shots fired” throughout Trump’s speech, likening his remark to hers.

The official White House Rapid Response social media account slammed Kimmel for defending his joke on Tuesday morning.

“Jim — you are a pathetic has-been (never-was) piece of trash. We all know what you meant,” the account posted on X alongside a clip of Kimmel backing his joke.