Melania Trump has launched a scathing attack on US TV star Jimmy Kimmel on X, branding him "hateful" and a "coward." The First Lady slammed the television host and comedian following a joke in which he referred to Ms Trump as an “expectant widow.”
The gag aired during Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! In advance of a shooting at a dinner where the US president was in attendance. Ms Trump posted on X: “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.”
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Kimmel had parodied the event in advance of it being held, where he gave a monologue as if he were the host of the annual dinner.
Days later, US PresidentDonald Trump, the First Lady and other top officials were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after shots were fired in the building.
Kimmel was taken off air last year due to backlash from the White House regarding comments made in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk.
In a monologue after Mr Kirk’s death, Kimmel said “many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalise on the murder of Charlie Kirk” and that “the MAGA gang” was “desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them”.
After a standing ovation on his return, Kimmel said: “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.
“I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.”
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
