Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has once again found himself in hot water with the Trump administration for comments he made on his show days before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday.
In a Thursday night sketch parodying the dinner, Kimmel performed a mock speech and joked at the expense of President Donald Trump’s inner circle, including first lady Melania Trump. The sketch aired on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” two days before the actual event at the Washington Hilton, where a gunman rushed a Secret Service checkpoint.
“Of course, our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel also lambasted Trump in the mock speech, calling the president “a delicate snowflake with the thinnest fat skin of any human being ever” and “a trembling drama queen.”
In response to the skit, Melania Trump called on ABC to take action against him and his show.
“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,” Melania Trump wrote Monday on X. “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” she said, calling Kimmel “a coward.”
“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,” she said.
Trump also chimed in, calling for Kimmel to be fired.
“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 wrote on social media. “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”
This is not the first time the late-night talk show host has been a target of the administration.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr denounced Kimmel for comments the show host made in September following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. At that time, Kimmel accused Trump supporters of “doing everything they can to score political points” from Kirk’s death.
In response to that episode, ABC and Nexstar Media and Sinclair — two of the country’s largest TV station owners — announced they were suspending the show. After boycotts of the network over what many deemed as censorship, ABC reversed course and the show returned to air.
ABC did not respond to MS NOW’s request for comment on the president’s and first lady’s latest remarks about the comedian.
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