A spokesman for first lady Melania Trump doubled down Tuesday on her call for ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be fired after he defended calling Melania an “expectant widow” on his show last week.
Melania, 56, initially demanded the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” frontman’s ouster in a social media post Monday after her husband and members of his administration were targeted by a gunman at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“Kimmel should be terminated. ABC should fire him now,” Marc Beckman told The Post after the former “Man Show” host brazenly repeated the joke during Monday night’s program.
“Our community should not tolerate violent political rhetoric at the expense of the First Family or any of our nation’s political leaders, regardless of party affiliation. And Kimmel continues to play these disrespectful and dangerous games knowing very well that he is protected by the ABC network.
“It’s enough – ABC should draw the line.”
Kimmel, 58, initially stepped in it on his April 23 show, when he devoted part of the program to mockingly roasting the dinner’s prospective attendees, even donning a tux to deliver his barbs.
“Our first lady, Melania, is here,” he said as stock footage of the president’s wife played. “Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
Kimmel also mocked the Trumps’ 22-year marriage in his parody monologue, at one point pretending to introduce the couple: “Oh, by the way, Melania, this is Donald. Donald, this is Melania.”
Donald and Melania Trump were attending the gala dinner for the first time since his first election to the presidency in 2016, lending additional anticipation to one of the capital’s biggest annual social events.
On Monday’s show, Kimmel told his audience, “This was like déjà vu for me today,” following his week-long September suspension for comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The host insisted that the joke was “about [Melania’s] age difference and the look of joy we see on her face” whenever she and Trump are together and had no relation to the assassination attempt.
The first lady had fumed Monday that “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.”
“His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she wrote on X.
Trump himself also demanded in a post on Truth Social that “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”
One of Kimmel’s scheduled guests, mentalist Oz Pearlman, canceled his appearance on Monday’s show following the shooting and the first couple’s outrage.
Pearlman, who was set to perform magic tricks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, had been standing between Trump and Melania at the event when gunfire erupted in the hallway as the suspect, 31-year-old Cole Allen, was intercepted by Secret Service agents.
