"I said, 'Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at her. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.' Which obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they're together."
"'It was a pretend roast. I put on a tuxedo. We pretended we had an audience of luminaries. We used old footage of the Trumps... and we made it seem like they were all together in a room. We had a little roast.'"
"'It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination, and they know that. I've been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular.'"
Jimmy Kimmel responded to Melania Trump's call for his firing after he made jokes during a faux White House Correspondents' Dinner. He expressed relief that no one was injured during a recent attempted shooting at the event. Kimmel defended his jokes as satire, explaining the tradition of roasting at the dinner. He clarified that his comments about Melania were light-hearted and not intended to incite violence, emphasizing his long-standing opposition to gun violence.
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