- Jimmy Kimmel joked that Melania Trump had a 'glow like an expectant widow' during a sketch mocking the US president and his allies.
- Two days later, a suspected gunman attempted to storm the White House Correspondents Dinner, though no one was killed in the incident.
- Melania Trump subsequently accused Kimmel of 'hateful and violent rhetoric' on social media.
- The US president then demanded that Jimmy Kimmel be fired from his show.
- Kimmel defended his comments as a 'light roast joke' and suggested Melania Trump should address violent rhetoric with her husband first.
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