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Jimmy Kimmel Defends Himself After Donald and Melania Trump Call for Him to Be Fired
Kimmel says the joke was a light roast about the Trumps’ age gap and not a call to violence, after both called for ABC to fire him.
- On Monday, April 27, 2026, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump demanded ABC fire comedian Jimmy Kimmel for his April 23 mock White House Correspondents' Dinner roast, characterizing it as a 'despicable call to violence' following the shooting.
- During the April 25 White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen disrupted the event, forcing an evacuation of the President and First Lady with armed gunfire.
- Kimmel defended the joke as 'a very light roast' about the couple's age difference, asserting his First Amendment right to free speech and rejecting allegations that his parody constituted a call to assassination.
- On X, First Lady Melania Trump accused Kimmel of spreading 'hateful and violent rhetoric' that 'deepens the political sickness within America,' intensifying pressure on ABC and Disney to terminate the host.
- With authorities preparing for Allen's April 30 detention hearing on attempted assassination charges, the controversy highlights ongoing tensions over media accountability and political rhetoric during a period of heightened national volatility.
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