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Kimmel, Trumps in Heated Roast War

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Jimmy Kimmels joke about Melania Trump at the fake White House Correspondents Dinner sparked a heated response from the Trumps and Rudy Giuliani, who labeled Kimmel as distasteful and incompetent. Kimmel fired back, mocking Giulianis past blunders. The Trumps and Melania condemned the joke as hateful and violent, with Melania urging ABC to rein Kimmel in. The situation escalated when a gunman opened fire at the real event, highlighting the potential dangers of late-night political jokes.

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Kimmel, Trumps in Heated Roast War

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Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Kimmel, Trumps in Heated Roast War. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

On April 29, Jimmy Kimmel dropped a sharp joke about Melania Trump during his fake White House correspondence dinner bit last week, saying she had a glow like an expectant widow. That line had a nerve with the Trumps and White House folks. Then Rudy Giuliani, 81, crawled out of the woodwork on his show to blast Kimmel as one of the most distasteful humans in America and in incompetent jackass. Kimmel hid back hard on his late night show, playing Giuliani's clip and clowning him for past flops, like farting his pants in front of Borat's fake. Daughter, holding a presser by a sex shop in that infamous hair-died drip, looking like squid ink. Trump and Melania slammed the joke as hateful and violent rhetoric with her urging ABC to rain Kimmel in. President Trump called it a despicable call to violence, especially since Kimmel's segment aired just two days before the real dinner on April. A gunman opened fire at that actual event, making things way more tense.

Kimmel addressed it directly, saying, he's sorry, everyone there went through that trauma, even if no one died. This back and forth shows how late night jabs keep sparking big political fires, pulling in heavy hitters like Giuliani and leaving us all watching. The next rose stung fold. I'm Cory with the story, and you've been listening to Entertainment and Celebrity News today, AI-powered pop culture coverage.

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