Megyn Kelly on Jimmy Kimmel: “What is he still doing on the air? Like, why is he still there?”
Kelly: “President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are both calling on ABC to fire him”
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Megyn Kelly on Jimmy Kimmel: "What is he still doing on the air? Like, why is he still there?"
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From the April 28, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): We are learning more about the disturbing past of White House Correspondents' Dinner would-be assassin Cole Allen, and the shocking things the left is saying about assassination. I would like to tell you you're going to be shocked, but you're not going to be. We may have found the most unhinged comment of all on this whole thing from, all together now, Joy Reid.
But we've got to start the show with ABC's chief narcissist and so-called late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel. What is he still doing on the air? Like, why is he still there? We told you yesterday how President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are both calling on ABC to fire him over this so-called joke Kimmel made on Thursday.
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JIMMY KIMMEL (COMEDIAN): Of course, our first lady Melania is here, look at so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
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KELLY: Now that is obviously an abhorrent, tasteless attempt at humor. It's super fun and funny to talk about Trump being assassinated. That's just so funny. And suggesting that she's gonna enjoy it. She wants him dead. That's very clearly the implication of the joke. She wants him dead and is looking forward to it, that's why she's glowing. Why else would there be a glow, Jimmy?
But if you're going to give Kimmel the benefit of the doubt, you have to remember, he said that Thursday, well before Saturday's attempted assassination of Trump. Okay. But it was after all the other assassination attempts. Like, I don't accept that. I realize he made this comment before Saturday's attempted assassination. Does anyone remember a prior assassination attempt on Trump, one that preceded Thursday? I do. I do. I remember a few of them, actually. Two extremely prominent, a third got less coverage, but there were at least three, and one nearly killed him. So it's really not funny.
You know, those of us who remember the news, like, more than a day's worth, don't think it's really funny to joke about assassinating Trump, you know, because, like, it almost happened many times. So it might be something a comedian in good taste, like one who's broadcasting every night on the network as opposed to at the great Comedy Cellar where anything goes, might want to uphold a certain standard of decorum and not joke about the thing that nearly happened and horrified a nation.