Donald Trump Says ‘Jimmy Kimmel Should Be Immediately Fired by Disney and ABC’ After Melania Widow Joke: ‘A Despicable Call to Violence’

Donald Trump is demanding ABC and Disney fire Jimmy Kimmel. Just hours after his wife, Melania, wrote in an X post that ABC must “take a stand” against Kimmel and his “atrocious behavior,” Trump took to his Truth Social account to post an even more blunt takedown of Kimmel.

“Wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings, made a statement on his Show that is really shocking,” Trump said. “He showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to him speak, which they weren’t, and never would be. He then stated, ‘Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.'”

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Trump continued, “A day later, a lunatic tried entering the ballroom of the White House Correspondents Dinner, loaded up with a shotgun, handgun, and many knives. He was there for a very obvious and sinister reason. I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said but, this is something far beyond the pale. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”

Trump and his MAGA supporters are outraged over Kimmel’s spoof of the White House Correspondents Dinner, which aired on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” a few days before the actual event was held in Washington D.C. Kimmel parodied hosting the event and jokingly addressed that Melania had the glow of an “expectant widow.” The real White House Correspondents Dinner was then disrupted days later when a shooting occurred. Donald and Melania Trump and administration officials were quickly evacuated from the event as the shooter was tackled by law enforcement on a different floor of the venue.

“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 Trump posted on X. “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. 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.”

Variety has reached out to representatives for Kimmel and ABC for comment. Kimmel was previously suspended last September for one week after controversial comments about Charlie Kirk’s murder.