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David James

Jimmy Kimmel explains he’s not demanding Donald Trump be assassinated, clarifies ‘very light roast joke’

Jimmy Kimmel would like it to be known that he is explicitly not calling for the assassination of Donald Trump. He is, in fact, adamantly opposed to crazed gunmen rushing the president with the intention of riddling him with bullets. The very last thing he wants to see is a sniper’s bullet ending Trump’s life in an incredible display of bloody violence.

This apparently necessary explanation comes after Kimmel cracked a joke on April 23 as part of a fake White House Correspondents’ dinner. He cut to stock footage of Melania Trump and said that she had the glow of “an expectant widow”.

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