00:00Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age,
00:05and then a day later go out and make a joke about his own old age.
00:09Anyone else feeling deja vu?
00:11Round two of the Kimmel-Trump feud is front page news all over again.
00:16The President and First Lady have called for the late night host to be fired,
00:19and the FCC, led by Chairman Brendan Carr,
00:23has ordered a review of ABC's parent company Disney's broadcast licenses.
00:27But despite the backlash, an ABC source exclusively tells Page Six that the network is sticking by Jimmy Kimmel.
00:34They don't plan to suspend him, fire him, or cancel the show.
00:38The insider confirmed it's back to taping per usual. They're moving on.
00:43So here's a full timeline of the latest reheated beef.
00:47Starting with Thursday, April 23rd, ahead of the real White House Correspondents dinner,
00:52Jimmy Kimmel staged his own alternative all-American roast,
00:55where he made a grim joke about Melania Trump, spliced with fake audience reactions.
01:00And of course, our First Lady Melania is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful.
01:05Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
01:09The jab didn't make news until four days later.
01:12The alleged assassination attempt at the Washington Hilton was on Saturday.
01:16Then on Monday morning, the First Lady tweeted this scathing statement.
01:20Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.
01:24His monologue about my family isn't comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens the political
01:30sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our
01:34homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will
01:40keep running cover to protect him.
01:42Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC's leadership
01:48enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community?
01:52Her husband, President Trump, also posted a truth social which was shared by the official
01:56White House account on X, calling for ABC and its parent company Disney to immediately fire Kimmel.
02:03Trump slammed the Melania joke as,
02:04That same day on Monday night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the comedian doubled down,
02:11repeated the punchline, and defended it as a light roast joke about Donald and Melania's
02:1624-year age gap marriage.
02:18Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow, which
02:24obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time
02:31they're together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's
02:36younger than I am. In the monologue, Kimmel denounced gun violence, said he rejects hateful and violent
02:41rhetoric, and called out the president for his own incendiary language. He also admitted that the
02:46White House Correspondents Dinner shooting was scary, traumatic, and stressful. But in the end,
02:51he defended his and all Americans right to free speech. For many, the new scandal is giving major
02:57Deja Vu. Jimmy Kimmel Live was pulled from air for a week in September 2025 over his comments
03:03about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Three months after the shocking suspension,
03:07ABC offered Kimmel a one-year contract extension. He joked in December 2025 that he will be on air
03:13until May 2027 or until the world ends, whichever comes first.
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