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Kimmel joke about Melania Trump The US Federal Communications Commission is ordering an early review of Disney's television broadcast licences days after President Donald Trump called for the firing
President Trump followed up with a social media post [calling for Kimmel to be fired
Kimmel this time around despite Trump’s calls for his firing. Disney, ABC’s parent company, said its stations “have a long record of operating in full compliance with FCC rules and serving their local
Trumps later connected Kimmel’s joke to the attack, calling for Kimmel’s firing. Kimmel has said the joke was about the 79-year-old president
fired’: Why the Trumps want Jimmy Kimmel sacked A political and media dispute [has erupted](/news/2026/4/27/melania-trump-blasts-kimmel-calls-on-abc-to-take-stand-against-comedian) involving United States President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel. Melania publicly
fired all 22 members of the currently independent National Science Board** that [oversees the National Science Foundation](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/trump-fires-national-science-foundation-board). - **Jimmy Kimmel has defended his Melania Trump joke** and refused to apologize after both
fire [Jimmy Kimmel](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/jimmy-kimmel), the late-night comedian, for a poorly timed joke. The letter called the early renewal demand an “extraordinary abuse of power” and an “unconstitutional abuse of the Commission
calling Hamill "one sick individual". "These Radical Left lunatics just can't help themselves," they replied. "This kind of rhetoric is exactly what has inspired three assassination attempts in two years against our President." Last
President Trump has repeatedly insisted [he is not an autocrat.](https://www.npr.org/2026/03/20/nx-s1-5754021/trump-democracy-autocracy-dictatorship-reports) "A lot of people are saying maybe we like a dictator," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last August
called Kimmel's joke about her "hateful and violent." [](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/26/nx-s1-5800105/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-scene-trump)
fire on Donald Trump, grazing his ear, before being killed by a Secret Service sniper. In modern America, it seems, political violence has become an ever-present storm, that can strike anywhere, at any moment
president's attack on free speech and the media's ability to do its job. Trump has been critical of media outlets whose journalism runs counter to his agenda and sensibilities. Among legal battles
fired over the segment, in which Kimmel said that the first lady has “a glow like an expectant widow.”. The joke was made two days before an attempted shooting – allegedly targeting Trump’s administration – interrupted