Jimmy Kimmel slams Trump again after FCC opens review of ABC TV licenses

Jimmy Kimmel doubled down on his criticism of President Trump after the president called for his firing and the Federal Communications Commission opened an investigation into ABC’s TV licenses.During the Tuesday monologue on his late-night show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Kimmel flashed a clip of Trump apologizing to the first lady for likely being unable to match his parents’ 63-year marriage.“Wait a minute, did he just make a joke about his death?” Kimmel said.“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.”The joke came the same day that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr launched a probe of ABC’s broadcast TV licenses.The review is an extension of an FCC probe launched last March into the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives of ABC parent Disney.The timing of the review — being so close to Kimmel’s latest beef with the president — is “coincidental,” a source with knowledge told the Wall Street Journal.Trump said Monday that the TV host should be fired for remarks he made days prior to a shooting at Saturday’s White ​House Correspondents’ Dinner.On his April 23 show, Kimmel presented a mock WHCD speech where he joked: “Our first lady, Melania, is here.

Look at Melania, so beautiful.Mrs.

Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”The first lady slammed Kimmel, calling him a “coward” on X, in the days after the correspondents’ dinner.“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,” she wrote on Monday.The suspected shooter, Cole Allen, has been charged with attempting to assassinate Trump, along with other counts.

Trump called for Kimmel’s firing on Monday, after Melania spoke out.Kimmel pushed back on the criticism of his joke, saying: “It wasn’t by any stre...