The Trumps have it out for Jimmy Kimmel, the master of American humor who, last September, saw how the Government decided to cancel. But now, however, it has not been the president who has attacked one of his greatest public enemies, but it has been, to the surprise of many, the first lady, Melania Trump. And he has reached the point of asking that his famous show night.
In an unusual move for her, the president’s wife has used her official platform on Melania Trump has written: “Kimmel’s rhetoric of hate and violence aims to divide our country. His monologue about my family is not comedy: his words are corrosive and aggravate the political disease plaguing the United States.” The first lady, 56, was referring to the monologue that the presenter gave on his program last Friday night, where he referred to the correspondents’ dinner – which was held, half-heartedly, a day later, on Saturday night, after – which is organized annually in the capital and to which the current president attended for the first time in his two terms.
In that opening monologue of his show, Kimmel joked, as he often does, about politics, and also about the president and his clique. At one point, he pretended to get up on the stage to give a speech as if he were at that dinner, and joked about Trump’s connection to Epstein. Afterwards, he commented: “And here is our first lady, Melania, look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, she has a glow like an expectant widow.”
Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.
People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to…
— First Lady Melania Trump (@FLOTUS)
In better or worse taste, it took place 24 hours before the attack on Trump at the correspondents’ dinner, something that, obviously, Kimmel did not know could happen. However, the first lady has decided to use the comedian’s words to ask, again, that his space be canceled. “People like Kimmel should not have the opportunity to enter our homes every night to spread hate. Kimmel, a coward, hides behind ABC because he knows the network will continue to cover up for him to protect him. Enough is enough,” he said.
He has gone further and has publicly asked the television network, owned by the Disney conglomerate, to end the space. “It’s time for ABC to take a stand. How many more times will ABC leadership allow Kimmel’s egregious behavior at the expense of our community?”
and his clique. In September, the Administration decided to cancel its Jimmy Kimmel Live! after . Specifically, Kimmel said: “This weekend we hit rock bottom. The MAGA gang [de las siglas Make America Great Again, volvamos a hacer grande a EE UU] “They are desperately trying to characterize this guy who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and doing everything possible to get political mileage out of him.” Those words made the Trump administration decide to cancel his showwhich records on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, indefinitely.
It was on September 17 when ABC decided to suspend the program, in a movement that caused a wave of protests, both at the doors of Kimmel’s theater and throughout the world of culture; In fact, they signed an open letter against the “severe censorship” of the Trump Government by canceling the space. The cancellation finally lasted nine days, until . Upon his return he garnered enormous praise and even better audiences, with more than . In that return program, Kimmel spoke for half an hour (his opening monologues last between 10 and 15 minutes) about the importance of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression, and criticized the White House for this cancellation.
“Our Government should not be able to control what we say or do not say on television,” he said then. “I’ve been thinking a lot about what to say tonight, and I don’t think it’s going to make much of a difference: if you like me, you like me; if you don’t, then no. But there’s something I want to make clear, because I care about it as a human being. Please understand that it was never my intention to make fun of the murder of a young man.”
