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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lauren Del Fabbro

Jimmy Kimmel defends Melania ‘widow’ joke after Trump called for him to be ‘immediately fired’

Jimmy Kimmel has insisted his widow joke about first lady Melania Trump was not “a call to assassination” after US President Donald Trump said the late-night talk show host should be “immediately fired” over the remarks.

Kimmel began his programme Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday by describing the joke as a light roast about the couple’s age difference and “not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination”.

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