Jimmy Kimmel says Melania Trump widow joke was not ‘a call to assassination’

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Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel said his widow joke about first lady Melania Trump was not “a call to assassination” after US President Donald Trump said he should be “immediately fired” over the remarks.

Mr Kimmel opened his programme Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday by describing the joke as a light roast about the couple’s age difference and “not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination”.