
Jimmy Kimmel pushed back against calls from the White House and the First Lady to fire him over a joke, defending the remarks as satire. The FCC has since ordered ABC to seek early renewals for its eight stations, turning an entertainment controversy into a regulatory and legal confrontation for Kimmel’s employer. Kimmel’s recent public rebuke of President Trump’s joke about his own death further extends the back-and-forth and keeps the dispute in the national spotlight.
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