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Late-night fallout
Melania Trump adviser urges advertisers to drop Kimmel after ‘widow’ joke
Marc Beckman said ABC should fire Jimmy Kimmel after Melania and Donald Trump condemned a monologue joke the host says was about the couple’s age difference
Late-night television
Jimmy Kimmel pushes back after Trumps urge ABC to fire him
The late-night host said his “expectant widow” joke was about the Trumps’ age difference, not a call to violence after a security scare at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner