Late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel on April 27 responded to President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s calls for his firing over a joke he made about the first lady last week.
Kimmel staged a speech at a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner during a segment of his show that aired on April 23—ahead of the April 25 event—in which he joked that the first lady “had a glow like an expectant widow.”
In response, Trump urged Disney and ABC to fire Kimmel, calling the segment “shocking.” Melania Trump also called for his firing, saying that Kimmel’s joke was “hateful and violent.”…