New Delhi, April 28 -- Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's "a glow like an expectant widow" joke for First Lady Melania Trump aged rather poorly after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) on Saturday. So much so that Melania and US President Donald Trump publicly called on ABC to dismiss Kimmel.

"Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow," Kimmel had said in a segment billed as an "alternative" to the annual media gala on the April 23 episode.

However, the comedian pushed back against the Trumps' criticism of his joke on Monday and said it was a reference to her age difference with President Trump and not a call for his assassination.

Kimmel called the experience "deja vu," in reference to the temporary su...