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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
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
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
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