Jimmy Kimmel continued his war of words with President Donald Trump on the Tuesday, April 28, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
In his opening monologue on Tuesday, Kimmel, 58, played a clip of Trump’s televised news conference earlier in the day welcoming the U.K.’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla on a state visit to the U.S.
During his speech, Trump, 79, noted that his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, moved from Scotland to the U.S. at age 19 and, “She met my father. We loved him so much, we all loved him, we loved her, we loved him: Fred. And they were married for 63 years.”
Turning to wife Melania Trump, the president then quipped, “And, uh, excuse me, if you don’t mind, that’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling.”
“I’m sorry, it’s just not going to work out that way. We’ll do well, but we’re not going to do that well,” he added.
“My God, you should be fired for that,” Kimmel quipped on Tuesday night, referring to the Trumps’ calls for him to be fired for a joke he made on his ABC late-night talk show last week.
Kimmel went on, “Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age and then a day later make a joke about his own old age.”
On the Thursday, April 23, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel hosted a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner two days before the real one took place and joked that Melania, 56, had a “glow like an expectant widow.”
Trump branded Kimmel’s comments a “call to violence” following a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, April 25.
“I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said, but this is something far beyond the pale,” Trump shared via his Truth Social account on Monday, April 27. “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Melania, meanwhile, shared via X, “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. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”
Kimmel denied that his joke was intended to incite violence during his monologue later on Monday.
“It obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,” he said. “It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination, and they know that. I’ve been very vocal for many years, speaking out against gun violence, but I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house.”
