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Trumps call for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel — again — after morbid joke about first lady (apnews.com)
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Donald and Melania Trump both called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after a joke last week in which the late-night comic described the first lady as having “the glow of an expectant widow.”

The remark about the president’s wife was part of a routine on Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” where the host pretended to deliver a comedy routine at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. That event two nights later was cut short when a man armed with guns and knives tried to enter the Washington ballroom where the Trumps and much of the nation’s political leadership had gathered.

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” Melania Trump said in a social media post later echoed by her husband.

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[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 51 points 2 weeks ago

It was such a mild joke. Everyone with half a brain knows Melania dreams of the day she can put Trump behind her and just be a rich woman with no obligations.

[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Get called back to home base for a debrief and reassignment

Yeah either one

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 47 points 2 weeks ago

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” Melania Trump said

No-one's forcing you to watch it, lady.

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

She probably loved that joke.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think she's any more capable of love than her husband.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I really don’t care - do u

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

what is hypocrisy, Alex?

[-] captain_oni 22 points 2 weeks ago

As conservatives are wont to say: "Grow some thicker skin, snowflake! Why can't you take a joke?"

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

and, "free speech!"

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing comedy is legal again ...

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

ok, Kimmel is annoying and the joke was in poor taste, but these idiots need to understand the Streisand effect as I now know everything Kimmel says despite never watching his show.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think anything can be in poor taste about that orange peel

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

I’ll take poor taste over this vile racist (warning) crap.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jImPTGrwF4Y

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jokes about guns going off outside comedy events (not shootings, not assassination attempts, shots outside the event) are in poor taste now?

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao most of the fucking country was making jokes rather more direct than Kimmel’s was

[-] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

He should lose his job because he's not funny... Not because the Govt wants him fired

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Donald put down the phone and finish shitting

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