Kimmel opened his late-night talk show on Thursday by responding to Trump’s remarks.

Trump made a further call for the presenter to be sacked in a post on Truth Social on Thursday.

Trump criticised the presenter in a post on Monday and echoed comments his wife made earlier calling for ABC to ‘take a stand’ on Kimmel.

Kimmel opened his programme Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday by describing the joke as a light roast about the couple’s age difference.

The US First Lady called the talk show host a ‘coward’ following his White House Correspondents’ Dinner sketch which aired in the US on Thursday.

After a standing ovation on his return, the TV host said: ‘It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man’.