Stephen King jumps to Jimmy Kimmel’s defence after Melania Trump calls for him to be fired

Jimmy Kimmel is under attack from the right again following the mock “alternative” White House Correspondents’ Dinner he threw last week, during which he roasted Donald Trump and the administration.

In the aftermath of the weekend’s real event being abruptly ended due to an armed man attempting to breach security, First Lady Melania Trump took to X going after the host, describing his words as “corrosive” and saying it’s time “for ABC to take a stand.”

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As Kimmel explained during his monologue on Monday, one of the jokes he made last week was about Trump having “a glow like an expectant widow.”

“It was a very light roast joke about the fact he’s nearly 80 and she’s younger than I am,” Kimmel said. “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.”

Since the First Lady’s post on Monday, other celebrities have been coming to Kimmel’s defence — including horror author and frequent Trump critic, Stephen King.

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“Melania Trump says Jimmy Kimmel should be canceled,” King wrote on X. “Last week her husband commented on Robert Mueller’s death: ‘Good. I”m glad he’s dead.’ Said pretty much the same about my old friend Rob Reiner. People who live in glass houses should’t throw shit.”

Kimmel, meanwhile, had a similar defence. “I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject,” he said. “I do, and I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”