President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump sharply escalated their long-running feud with late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmelon Monday, publicly demanding that the ABC host be immediately fired by Disney and the networkover a joke he made days before a shooting incidentat the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The controversy centers on a comedic monologue Kimmel delivered on his April 23 episode ofJimmy Kimmel Live!, in whichhe staged an "alternative" version of the annual dinner roast.
"Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump,you have a glow like an expectant widow." Kimmel also performed a Jeffrey Epstein-style impression introducing "Donald" and "Melania" and referenced a deleted Trump meme depicting the president as Jesus.
'AN EXPECTENTWIDOW'Jimmy Kimmel bashed for bad-taste joke about Melania becoming widow' before shootingpic.twitter.com/ybuMaii3Y7
As theEpoch Timesnotes further, the Trumps took serious offense.
“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 wrote on Monday in a post on X.
“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”
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.People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to…
Video footage of the incident at the Washington Hilton ballroom, where the dinner was being held, showed Melania Trump sitting next to the president and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The first lady looked visibly shocked at one point and began to move off stage before she and Trump were whisked to safety by Secret Service agents.
A White House officialconfirmedto The Epoch Times that Cole Allen was arrested in connection with the shooting. The official said Allen allegedly wrote a manifesto and sent it to members of his family, and that he traveled from California to Washington before the shooting.
Source: ZeroHedge News
