It seems like Donald Trump can dish it out, but he can’t take it. When it comes to badmouthing his political opponents, he spares no expense verbally attacking his opposition both personally and professionally, but when a late night show host gives him a taste of his own medicine, he demands the network fire him.
After Jimmy Kimmel’s latest monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, both Melania Trump and Donald Trump took to social media to slam the host, demanding that ABC fire him. Keep reading for more information.
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Jimmy Kimmel's Roast
Prior to the White House correspondents' dinner, Jimmy Kimmel delivered a monologue about the event, imagining himself as the M.C. Pretending to address Melania Trump, Kimmel said, "Of course, our first lady, Melania, is here. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow."
A joke pertaining to Donald Trump's age and health, the joke might've been funny in the moment. Unfortunately, days later at the actual White House correspondents' dinner, a gunman broke past a security perimeter at the event, reportedly with plans to assassinate the president. Naturally, in retrospect, Kimmel's joke was quite untimely.
Donald Trump & Melania Trump Call Out Kimmel
Today, both Melania Trump and Donald Trump responded to Kimmel's monologue, and were equally appalled by his joke. In rare form, Melania took to X to slam the comedian. "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. "People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate."
"A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough," she continued. "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."
Donald Trump, too, called out Jimmy Kimmel, calling his monologue "really shocking."I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable call to violent, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said but, this is something far beyond the pale," Trump wrote on Truth Social., "Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC."
