Top Trump aide on Kimmel joke defense: ‘S— human being’

A top White House aide is blasting late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel for a joke he made last week about first lady Melania Trump, comments that have sparked both she and President Trump to call for his firing.

“Jimmy Kimmel is a s— human being for: Making a disgusting joke about assassinating the President … Doubling down on that joke instead of doing the decent thing by apologizing,” White House communications director Steven Cheung wrote in a post on the social platform X. “ABC needs to fire him immediately and he should be shunned for the rest of his life.”

Cheung was responding to a clip in which Kimmel defended his joke about Melania Trump, who he said during a skit that aired last week had the “glow” of an “expectant widow.”

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