The front page of the NYT and WSJ are reporting the Jimmy Kimmel show is again on the hit list of the White House. Here is what my eyes just saw on WSJ.com.
President Trump on Monday called on Disney’s ABC to remove late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made last week about Melania Trump, in the latest skirmish between the administration and the comedian.
During a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech, Kimmel made a remark about the first lady, saying, “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” Kimmel, the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” performed the bit on April 23.
“I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said but, this is something far beyond the pale,” Trump said Monday on Truth Social. “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”
Disney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Monday, the first lady also called on Disney’s ABC to “take a stand” against Kimmel.
“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,” she wrote on X. “How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also criticized Kimmel during a Monday press briefing.
Kimmel’s comment came before Saturday, when suspected gunman Cole Allen opened fire outside the correspondents’ dinner.
12 hours later.
Jimmy Kimmel responds to the Trumps’ demand that he get fired.