Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night called out President Donald Trump for making a joke about his own mortality just one day after he called for Kimmel to be fired for making a similar joke.
Trump's Joke at the White House
During his remarks welcoming King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the White House earlier in the day, Trump noted that his parents had been married for 63 years. "That's a record we won't be able to match, darling," Trump, who turns 80 in June, said to first lady Melania Trump, 56, who was sitting just behind him. "I'm sorry. Just not gonna work out that way."
Kimmel's Response
"Wait a minute!" Kimmel said after playing the clip. "Did he just make a joke about his death? My God! He should be fired for that." The president and the first lady said Kimmel should lose his job over a joke he made last week that was not too dissimilar.
Background of the Controversy
Days ahead of the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Kimmel held his own version of the event on his show and did roast-style jokes, including one in which he said the first lady was glowing "like an expectant widow."
After a gunman rushed past security and shots were fired in the hotel where the actual event took place, the first lady accused Kimmel of "hateful and violent rhetoric." Both she and her husband demanded that ABC fire the late-night host over the joke. The FCC also ordered a review of ABC's broadcasting license.
But on Monday night, Kimmel said his joke was nothing of the sort. "It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am," he said. "It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination. And they know that."
Kimmel's Take on Trump's Hypocrisy
On Tuesday, Kimmel was stunned by the president's own joke on the topic. "Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age and then a day later go out and make a joke about his own old age," he pointed out. See more in his Tuesday night monologue.
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