A late-night monologue by Jimmy Kimmel has sparked a heated controversy after a joke about Melania Trump drew sharp backlash from the Trump family. The controversy escalated quickly, not just because of the remark itself, but because it aired two days before a frightening security incident near the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C.
The timing pushed what might have been another late-night jab into a much bigger political fight now dominating headlines.
