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President Donald Trump arrives for the State Dinner at the White House in Washington DC, on day two of the state visit to the US (Aaron Chown\/PA)<\/p>\nUS President Donald Trump has urged ABC to fire the late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, saying: \u201cIt better be soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump made a further call for the presenter of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to be sacked in a post on Truth Social after previously calling for the US network to \u201cimmediately\u201d fire him on Monday.<\/p>\n
The comments come after the presenter joked last week that the US first lady, Melania Trump, looked like an \u201cexpectant widow\u201d during a sketch roast of the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner.<\/p>\n
Days later a gunman attempted to storm the event.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump arrives for the State Dinner at the White House in Washington DC, on day two of the state visit to the US (Aaron Chown\/PA)<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s new call for the presenter to be fired was made hours before Trump bid farewell to the British king and queen following their historic visit to America.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWhen is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over one of the Lowest Rated shows on Television? People are angry. It better be soon!!!\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, Melania called Kimmel a \u201ccoward\u201d in a post on X and said: \u201cHis monologue about my family isn\u2019t comedy \u2013 his words are corrosive and deepen the political sickness within America.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel later described the sketch as a light roast and that his widow joke about the first lady was not \u201ca call to assassination\u201d.<\/p>\n
In Monday\u2019s monologue, Kimmel said he was sorry that the president and those in attendance at the event went through that traumatic and scary experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do, and I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel was previously taken off the air and suspended indefinitely following comments he made on the show after the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, an ally of Trump.<\/p>\n
He returned five days later following criticism from the public, Hollywood and political figures who said it was an infringement of their freedom of speech and the freedom of the press.<\/p>\n
ABC and Kimmel have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has urged ABC to fire the late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, saying: \u201cIt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-427099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}