Overview
- Jimmy Kimmel, responding on Thursday’s show to the president’s new demand that ABC fire him, mocked the “low ratings” jab and said by that logic they should both lose their jobs.
- Meryl Streep joined the broadcast Thursday and praised Kimmel as carrying the banner of a free press.
- ABC is keeping Jimmy Kimmel Live! on the air, with network insiders saying there are no plans to suspend, fire, or cancel the host.
- The uproar stems from a late‑April monologue in which Kimmel joked that Melania Trump looked like “an expectant widow,” which she condemned as corrosive after a shooting near the Correspondents’ Dinner raised tensions.
- The fight now includes regulatory scrutiny, as 7NEWS cited CNN reporting that the FCC has taken the unusual step of challenging ABC station licenses, intensifying a wider First Amendment debate.