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George Clooney Defends Jimmy Kimmel After Trump Demands His Firing: ‘Jokes Are Jokes’
Clooney said Kimmel is a comedian and warned that heated political rhetoric is becoming dangerous after the backlash over the joke.
- On Monday, George Clooney defended Jimmy Kimmel at the 51st Chaplin Award Gala in New York after President Donald Trump pressured ABC to fire the late-night host over a skit.
- A Jimmy Kimmel Live! skit mocking First Lady Melania Trump as an "expectant widow" sparked the controversy two days before the White House Correspondents Dinner, which was later cancelled after a security breach.
- Clooney dismissed the backlash by comparing it to remarks by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who told Fox News there would be "some shots fired" at the dinner, a line he argued was a joke taken out of context.
- "Jokes are jokes," Clooney said, warning that labeling dissenters as "traitors to the country" creates dangerous political rhetoric that threatens democratic discourse.
- The Chaplin Award Gala has previously honored Hollywood figures like Spike Lee and Robert Redford for activism, and Clooney continues to advocate for press freedom through projects like his stage adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck.
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George Clooney is coming to Jimmy Kimmel‘s defense amid President Donald Trump‘s latest attempts to get the late-night host and comedian fired. The 64-year-old two-time Oscar winner talked to Variety on Monday (April 27) during the 51st Chaplin Award Gala where he was being honored for his cinema contributions. Kimmel has come under fire over a joke in which he said Melania Trump had the glow of an “expectant widow” just a few days before the Wh…
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