Melania Trump adviser turns up the heat on Kimmel after ‘expectant widow’ fallout
First lady Melania Trump’s senior adviser Marc Beckman is calling on advertisers of late night host Jimmy Kimmel to boycott the show in the wake of his "expectant widow" joke...
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First lady Melania Trump ’s senior adviser Marc Beckman is calling on advertisers of late night host Jimmy Kimmel to boycott the show in the wake of his "expectant widow" joke aimed at the first lady. "Why would ABC stand behind that? That's the question. Furthermore, not just for the ABC brand, but why do the advertisers for Kimmel's show stick with him," said Marc Beckman. "It's kind of strange." The first lady called out Kimmel for "hateful and violent rhetoric" after he made a White House Correspondents' Association Dinner parody, calling her "an expectant widow" days prior to the assassination attempt. Kimmel has defended his skit, saying it was a joke about age difference and not a call for an assassination. Beckman said while the first lady was selective with her words, "Kimmel should be fired. ABC should terminate his employment." KAROLINE LEAVITT SAYS OBAMA 'HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT' AFTER KIMMEL COMMENTS The first lady slammed Kimmel in an X post on Monday, including calling him a "coward" and calling on "ABC to take a stand." "His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate," she wrote. Beckman, CEO of advertising agency DMA United, said that, from his perspective, "it's not about freedom of speech . It's about branding." "Why would ABC and the parent company, Disney, want to be affiliated with an individual that's entering all of our homes, America's homes, night after night [in] our living rooms, our bedrooms, and spewing such divisive, vile political rhetoric?" he asked. "It leads to nowhere good." Beckman cited reporting from The Wall Street Journal that analyzed terrorism incidents compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, data showing that, in 2025, left-wing terrorist attacks and plots outnumbered right-wing ones for the first time in more than 30 ye…