“I would argue that Karoline Leavitt didn’t mean shots should be fired, right? She was making a joke. Fair enough,” said Clooney. “I look at that side and go, ‘Well, jokes are jokes.’ But the rhetoric, I think, is a little dangerous. And we’ve seen it a lot lately.”
Trump and First Lady Melania called for Kimmel to be fired over a skit the comedian delivered about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—a bit which was filmed and televised days before this year’s event.
During the Jimmy Kimmel Live! bit, the late-night host pretended to be the event’s MC and said: “Our First Lady Melania is here. So beautiful, Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
After the shooting, Melania revisited the skit and accused Kimmel of “hateful and violent rhetoric” that’s “intended to divide our country.”
“Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand,” she argued. “How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.”
