Melania Trump has criticised late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke in which he called her an "expectant widow" just days before a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner she attended with the president.
The first lady called Kimmel's remarks "hateful and violent", urging his network, ABC, to take action against his "atrocious behavior".
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I don't think he should be fired directly - I think the people should stop watching him, and then fired for his unpopularity. Firing him is itching in one place and scratching in another.
@Waveney You say it out loud to the Nation about your First Lady being widow. Glad that this Kimmel is in USA, WERE he in some other country, the news in the tomorrow's newspaper would be "Famous Comedian Jimmy Kimmel ends his life in road rage, was doing 120+ after possible meth overdose, investigations underway"
It is freedom all over in USA and he is reaping it.
@Waveney Which right winger tried to kill Obama?many didn't like him. There have been multiple attempts to kill Trump and this last guy and Luigi are both educated, left leaning ideologues.
@MarciaMom1 Wikipedia has a long list of attempts thwarted by police and/or secret service; all linked to reports in media. I'll just hit a few highlights below.
Jerry Blanchard, Charlotte NC threats, July 2008 Three cousins plotted shooting Obama at Aug 2008 DNC Denver Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart, Tenn, Oct 2008 James G. Cummings, dirty bomb plot, Maine, Dec 2008 Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez fired shots at White House Nov 2011 Four U.S. Army soldiers in Georgia, FEAR Militia, Dec 2011 James Everett Dutschke, letter laced with ricin, April 2013 Shannon Richardson, letter laced with ricin, June 2013 Omar J. Gonzalez, White House intruder, Sept 2014 Three NYC ISIL men, Feb 2015 Cesar Sayoc mailed a series of pipe bombs, Oct 2018
@MarciaMom1 Really? Was it "educated leftists" who murdered Melissa & Mark Hortman? Was it "educated leftists" who plotted to kidnap Gov Gretchen Whitmer? Was it "educated leftists" who attacked Paul Pelosi? Was it "educated leftists" who firebombed Gov Josh Shapiro? Was it "educated leftists" who shot up Dem offices in Tempe Arizona?
We have a deep and enduring problem with violence in our society. It's not restricted to one party or the other. BTW, Trump's own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat today is white supremacists. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/09/fact-check-did-fbi-director-warn-about-white-supremacist-violence/114251512/