Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Monday pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s demand that he be removed from ABC and parent company Walt Disney, saying his joke about First Lady Melania Trump had been misconstrued and was not a “call to assassination”. Kimmel clarified that his comment, describing Melania Trump as having “a glow like an expectant widow”, was intended as a light jab at the age gap between the First Lady and the President. “It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,” Kimmel said. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination.” Donald Trump demands action against Kimmel Earlier in the day, Trump said Kimmel should be immediately fired by ABC and Walt Disney, amplifying criticism that followed a shooting incident near a weekend gathering of journalists and politicians. The President and First Lady were rushed out of Saturday’s event after gunfire erupted in the lobby of the Washington Hilton.…