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Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hit back on Monday at Donald Trump’s call for him to lose his job over a joke about First Lady Melania Trump days before an alleged attempt to assassinate the US president.
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Trump said Kimmel should be fired for likening the first lady to an “expectant widow” on Thursday, two days before a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington that the couple attended.
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Kimmel portrayed himself in a monologue as the MC of that upcoming banquet. It included a segment in which he addressed the first lady in the audience and said: “Mrs Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
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Trump turns 80 in June and is the oldest president to take office in the United States. His wife, a former model who was born in Slovenia, is 56.
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The first lady also lashed out at Kimmel in a rare statement, calling on US broadcaster ABC to “take a stand” against the late-night host over his comments.
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However, Kimmel brushed off the criticism in a monologue on his talk show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late on Monday, saying that the gag was “obviously… a joke about their age difference.”
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“It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,” Kimmel said.
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“It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.”
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Kimmel also appeared to invite Trump onto his show to discuss “hateful” rhetoric — an apparent reference to the president’s inflammatory comments about groups including migrants, political opponents and the media.
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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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