First girl Melania Trump ripped into Jimmy Kimmel on Monday over a joke the late evening host made final week calling her an “expectant widow.”
On Thursday evening’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the comic parodied the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. The annual dinner is normally hosted by a comic who roasts highly effective folks, together with the president. This time, nevertheless, the host was to be a mentalist.
“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 in his monologue from behind a podium, earlier than introducing the primary girl.
“Look at Melania, so beautiful,” the host mentioned. “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
Two days later, a person opened fireplace outdoors the official dinner on the Washington Hilton earlier than police tackled and arrested him. Attendees, which included the Trumps, had been whisked away by the Secret Service.
While Kimmel couldn’t have probably predicted such an occasion, the president’s supporters known as for the comic to step down over his Thursday feedback. In her Monday submit on X, the primary girl known as the late evening host a “coward” who “shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”
“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” Trump continued. “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.”
A spokesperson for Kimmel didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.
President Donald Trump backed the primary girl’s demand to have Kimmel fired later Monday, calling the host “in no way funny” and describing his monologue as a “despicable call to violence” in a Truth Social submit.
Despite the president claiming he “normally would not be responsive to anything that [Kimmel] said,” Donald Trump has tried a number of instances to get him and different late evening hosts kicked off the air. ABC briefly suspended Kimmel final 12 months over his feedback about slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, whereas the president additionally focused Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers over jokes vital of the administration — a constitutionally protected proper.
“Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him,” the primary girl mentioned. “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.”
Melania Trump made no point out of the violent and hateful rhetoric her husband has turn out to be internationally acknowledged for.
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