The federal government is cracking down on ABC’s broadcast licenses in direct response to Jimmy Kimmel’s latest vile comments, this time on First Lady Melania Trump.

The FCC, under Trump appointee Brendan Carr, is directing eight Disney-owned TV stations to file early license renewals tied explicitly to Kimmel’s “expectant widow” monologue that he may have gotten away with had an assassination attempt against Trump not occurred on the same day.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung was forthright In a post on X, declaring “Jimmy Kimmel is a shit human being for: Making a disgusting joke about assassinating the President. Doubling down on that joke instead of doing the decent thing by apologizing. ABC needs to fire him immediately and he should be shunned for the rest of his life.”

Jimmy Kimmel is a shit human being for:#1. Making a disgusting joke about assassinating the President#2. Doubling down on that joke instead of doing the decent thing by apologizingABC needs to fire him immediately and he should be shunned for the rest of his life.https://t.co/utaB6gQFyb

The controversy erupted after Kimmel, during a skit on his show last Thursday portraying himself as master of ceremonies for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, told Melania Trump: “Mrs Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

Jimmy Kimmel made an assassination joke about President Trump.Hours later, there was an assassination attempt on Trump's life.The US taxpayers paid for this sick joke.Here's how, and why it must END…ABC holds taxpayer-funded broadcast licenses with the explicit legal…pic.twitter.com/xuZoiJcSlT

Hours later, an assassination attempt targeted President Trump at the actual dinner on Saturday. Kimmel has a documented history of inflammatory rhetoric that critics say normalizes violence against the president and his family.

Kimmel went on the defensive Monday night, claiming it was all just a harmless roast. He insisted: “It was obviously… a joke about their age difference. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.”

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump immediately called for ABC to fire him. Melania demanded the network “take a stand” against the host.

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…

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