Overview
- Following Saturday’s shooting near the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Melania Trump on Monday urged ABC to “take a stand” against Jimmy Kimmel and President Trump said he should be “immediately fired.”
- On Monday night’s show, Kimmel said the “expectant widow” line from his Thursday parody was a light roast about the Trumps’ age gap and not a call to violence.
- Prosecutors charged Cole Tomas Allen with attempting to assassinate the president after the Washington Hilton attack, and investigators say he aimed to target administration officials.
- ABC and Disney have not issued a substantive public response in the reporting reviewed, as pressure mounted from conservative commentators and the White House press office for penalties or an apology.
- The fight revives a pattern for the show, which ABC briefly suspended last September over remarks about Charlie Kirk’s killing after FCC scrutiny and station preemptions.