Late night “comedy” hosts have been busy circling the Free Speech wagons around Jimmy Kimmel during his spat with President Trump. They rush to their censorship and First Amendment fainting couches whenever somebody says ABC should hold Kimmel accountable for the assassination “jokes” he makes about Donald and Melania Trump (oh, sorry, we’re supposed…
ABC late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel explained his controversial joke about First Lady Melania Trump, but declined to apologize for offending her. On Monday, President Trump repeated his demand that ABC fire the longtime show host over a joke that aired on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” two days before the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner in Washington….
Trumps call for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired over jokes made prior to correspondents’ dinner attack – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump and first lady Melania Trump are demanding that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel be fired over remarks he made before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Nancy Cordes reports. Source: Read Full Article
Jimmy Kimmel, never one to miss an opportunity to punch down with ‘edgy,’ ugly humor only to clutch his pearls and play victim when the backlash hits, is once again proving the old adage: if you’re explaining, you’re losing. The late-night host’s clumsy attempt at a Trump assassination ‘joke’ has exploded in his face,…
A Democratic FCC commissioner warned that the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “should not become a pretext for censoring speech,” after President Donald Trump again called for ABC to fire the late-night host over a joke he made last week in his monologue. First Lady Melania Trump also urged the network to “take…
Here we go again. Photo: Randy Holmes/Disney There was no comedian present (there was, however, a mentalist) for this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but that didn’t stop Jimmy Kimmel from presenting his alternative version of what his WHCD monologue might look like on his Thursday, April 23, show. Sandwiched between jokes about how the…
The suspect arrested for the shooting that shut down the 2026 White House Correspondents Dinner and saw Donald Trump evacuated could spend the rest of his life in a federal prison if found guilty, the Acting Attorney General declared today. “Today the Department of Justice filed three federal charges in the United States District Court…
President Trump on Monday called for comedian Jimmy Kimmel to be fired over jokes the late-night host made days before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The president’s call for Kimmel’s firing came hours after first lady Melania Trump, in a rare statement, called the jokes “hateful and violent rhetoric.” On his show on…
Have we mentioned lately that Hakeem Jeffries is truly a boil on the butt of humanity? Yes? Ok, well, he still is, so there’s that. America will not be lectured about civility by far right extremists in Congress. Particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police…
First Lady Melania Trump excoriated ABC and Jimmy Kimmel, describing the late-night comedian as a “coward” whose words “are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.” The first lady called on ABC to take action against Kimmel in a Monday morning post on the X platform. On his show late last week, Kimmel mocked…
