Kimmel made his joke days before the shooting incident at the White House gala dinner.
Melania Trump, the wife of the US president, demands that ABC take action against comedian, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
– The cowardly Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the channel will continue to protect him.
– That’s enough. It’s time for the ABC to take a stand. How many times ABC management allows Kimmel’s horrible behavior at the expense of our community, Melania Trump wrote on her X account.
His spouse, President Donald Trump, also calls for Kimmel’s firing in his Truth Social update.
Melania Trump at the White House gala dinner on Saturday, before the shooting incident. PDO
According to The Independent magazine, Kimmel had parodied the White House Correspondents’ Gala Dinner on his show last Thursday before it was held. Kimmel said Melania Trump was glowing like a “widow-in-waiting.”
Brittilehti says that the clip started circulating again after an armed person rushed to the celebratory dinner on Saturday and shot the security guard. According to the authorities, the man planned to kill President Donald Trump and representatives of the administration.
Donald Trump considers Kimmel to have “incited violence”.
– A day later, a madman tried to enter the ballroom of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a loaded shotgun, a handgun and knives. He was there for a very obvious and dark reason.
Jimmy Kimmel has angered the Trumps many times. Illustration picture. CAROLINE BREHMAN, AOP
According to The Independent, Trump supporters have now attacked Jimmy Kimmel.
– Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric aims to divide our country in two. His monologue about my family is not comedy. His words are corrosive and deepen the political sickness in America, the president’s spouse Melania Trump writes in X.
– People like Kimmel should not have the opportunity to come to our homes every night to spread hate.
Jimmy Kimmel has been targeted several times by Donald Trump and his supporters. ABC’s parent company Disney shelved Kimmel’s show last year due to pressure from the US administration, but later reversed its decision.