Donald Trump Says ‘Jimmy Kimmel Should Be Immediately Fired by Disney and ABC’ After Melania Widow Joke: ‘A Despicable Call to Violence’

Home TV News Apr 27, 2026 11:10am PT Donald Trump Says ‘Jimmy Kimmel Should Be Immediately Fired by Disney and ABC’ After Melania Widow Joke: ‘A Despicable Call to Violence’ By Zack Sharf Plus Icon Zack Sharf Digital News Director ZSharf Latest Donald Trump Says ‘Jimmy Kimmel Should Be Immediately Fired by Disney and ABC’ After Melania Widow Joke: ‘A Despicable Call to Violence’ 19 minutes ago DC’s ‘The Authority’ Movie Put on Back Burner, Says James Gunn: ‘Script Wasn’t Quite There’ and Story ‘Didn’t Work in Terms of the Larger DCU’ 34 minutes ago Melania Trump Urges ABC to ‘Take a Stand’ Against ‘Coward’ Jimmy Kimmel: ‘His Hateful and Violent Rhetoric Is Intended to Divide Our Country’ 3 hours ago See All Getty Donald Trump is demanding ABC and Disney fire Jimmy Kimmel. Just hours after his wife, Melania, wrote in an X post that ABC must “take a stand” against Kimmel and his “atrocious behavior,” Trump took to his Truth Social account to post an even more blunt takedown of Kimmel. “Wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings, made a statement on his Show that is really shocking,” Trump said. “He showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to him speak, which they weren’t, and never would be. He then stated, ‘Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.'” Related Stories 'Daredevil: Born Again' Shocker: [SPOILER] on That Death, Kingpin's Breaking Point and How Season 2 Moves Forward