Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel refused to walk back his viral joke about First Lady Melania Trump on the April 28 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, insisting it had been misinterpreted and was unrelated to the shooting days later at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. "You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job?" Kimmel told his studio audience on ABC, opening with sarcasm.
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