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Melania Trump Demands Kimmel’s Firing After Dinner Shooting

4/27/2026

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First Lady Melania Trump urged ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel after his “expectant widow” joke.
Jimmy Kimmel delivered the joke in a White House Correspondents’ Dinner parody on April 23, 2026.
A gunman opened fire at the dinner on April 25, 2026, wounding a Secret Service agent.
Melania Trump posted on X on April 27, 2026, calling the monologue hateful, violent, corrosive, and saying it deepens political sickness.

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First Lady Melania Trump urged ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel after his “expectant widow” joke.
Jimmy Kimmel delivered the joke in a White House Correspondents’ Dinner parody on April 23, 2026.
A gunman opened fire at the dinner on April 25, 2026, wounding a Secret Service agent.
Melania Trump posted on X on April 27, 2026, calling the monologue hateful, violent, corrosive, and saying it deepens political sickness.