There is a pattern here. And it is time ABC answered for it.

Last Thursday, Jimmy Kimmel looked into a camera on a federally licensed broadcast network and told his audience that Melania Trump had "a glow like an expectant widow." Two days later, a gunman breached the security perimeter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner -- the same event -- while the President and First Lady were evacuated from the ballroom.

This was not the first time someone has tried to kill Donald Trump. He has survived two assassination attempts, an Iran-backed murder-for-hire plot, and a security breach at Mar-a-Lago. No modern president has faced this many threats. And through all of it, Jimmy Kimmel has used his ABC platform to normalize the idea that his death would be acceptable -- even funny.

This is not satire. Satire punches at power. It challenges ideas. It holds leaders accountable through humor. 

What Kimmel said does none of that. It is a joke about widowhood delivered to a woman whose husband has survived multiple attempts on his life. It is cruel. It is dangerous. And it is a pattern.

In September 2025, after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Kimmel went on air and accused the MAGA community of trying to "score political points" from the murder -- before investigators had released any information about the suspect's motive. ABC suspended him. Then brought him back.

He mocked Congresswoman Lisa McClain for raising concerns about criminal illegal immigrants preying on children. He ridiculed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's blue-collar background. A Media Research Center study of 7,797 political jokes across 369 episodes found that conservatives were the target of 92% of them. Out of 63 guests since September 2022, 97% were liberals. Fox News

ABC has known all of this. ABC has watched all of this. And ABC has done nothing.

Melania Trump responded directly: "Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His words are corrosive and deepen the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate." CBS News

She is right. And she is not just a political figure. She is a wife and a mother who was sitting next to her husband when gunshots rang out at that dinner -- two days after Kimmel joked she was about to become a widow.

We are calling on Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, ABC Entertainment leadership, and the network's board to answer three questions publicly:

• Does ABC consider jokes about the death of a sitting president acceptable programming on a federally licensed network?
• What standard of conduct, if any, applies to Jimmy Kimmel?
• If this does not warrant removal, what would?
• Silence is its own answer. And America is watching.

Sign this petition. Demand that ABC stop hiding behind Kimmel and answer to the audience their license is supposed to serve.