US First Lady Melania Trump, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio listen as US President Donald Trump (out of frame) speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, shortly after a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, 2026. —Mandel Ngan—AFP via Getty ImagesFirst Lady Melania Trump has called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired by ABC for jokes he made in a White House Correspondents’ Dinner skit on his late-night talk show last week.“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,” the First Lady wrote on social media Monday. “How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community,” she added, calling on the network to “take a stand.” Kimmel’s skit, which included a joke that Melania had “a glow like an expectant widow,” was broadcast two days prior to a shooting at the actual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, when President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Administration officials were rushed out. Read more: From Firing Threats to Epstein Mentions, Here’s a Look at the Fraught History Between Trump and KimmelThe annual dinner usually includes a monologue by a comedian tasked with roasting the President and attendees. In Kimmel’s monologue, he performed a mock version of the roast, splicing it with videos of the First Lady and others to make it appear as though they were reacting to his jokes. “Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said in the skit.“By the way, in the unfortunate event that our president has a medical emergency tonight, do we have a doctor in the house — oh, I’m sorry. I mean, do we have a Jesus in the house? I always confuse them, too,” Kimmel said.Melania Trump was also whisked away by security when the shooting occurred. Trump told reporters that the shooting was a “rather traumatic experience” for his wife when asked on Sunday about her.Soon after Melania’s post, the president posted his own attack on Kimmel, saying the host should be “immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”“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,” he wrote on Truth Social.The dispute is just the latest in a series of conflicts between Kimmel and the Trumps. After the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last year, a joke Kimmel had made on the show led ABC to pull his show Jimmy Kimmel Live! from the air for nearly a week.Trump immediately celebrated on social media when the show was pulled: “Great news for America. The ratings-challenged Jimmy Kimmel show is CANCELLED,” he wrote.The originally “indefinite” suspension of his show raised free-speech concerns, bringing together Democrats and some Republicans, especially as critics argued that government pressure on ABC implicated First Amendment protections.