{"id":462332,"date":"2026-05-01T00:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462332\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:38:12","slug":"donald-trump-urges-abc-to-fire-jimmy-kimmel-it-better-be-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462332\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump urges ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel: \u2018It better be soon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has urged ABC to fire the late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, saying: \u201cIt better be soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Days later a gunman attempted to storm the event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/donald-trump-urges-abc-to-fire-jimmy-kimmel-it-better-be-soon.jpg\" alt=\"State visit to the US \u2013 Day Two\" data-title=\"State visit to the US \u2013 Day Two\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Aaron Chown\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXf71O5DoHj\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 2px)\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>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<p>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<p>ABC and Kimmel have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-462332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116496531959676154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}