First lady Melania Trump is calling for ABC to “take a stand” after late show host Jimmy Kimmel joked she had a “glow like an expectant widow” just two days before a shooter targeted the Trump administration at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

President Donald Trump attended the event Saturday for the first time as president, and several cabinet members joined him. The dinner was interrupted when alleged gunman Cole Allen, a 31-year-old teacher from California, sprinted through the security checkpoint and toward the ballroom with several weapons, according to multiple reports.

It is believed the suspect shot a Secret Service officer, though the officer is expected to recover and authorities were able to stop the gunman before he reached the ballroom, according to CBS News.

“Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said in the segment, posted online Thursday. Kimmel also repeatedly referenced Trump and Melania’s alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein throughout the monologue, which Melania Trump denied in a rare public statement earlier in April.

The first lady responded on X on Monday, writing that “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy – his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.”

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand,” she continued. “How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community[?]”

The president also posted a statement Monday about Kimmel’s “shocking” rhetoric, calling for ABC and Disney to fire the talk show host “immediately.”

Notably, ABC suspended Kimmel in September after he said that “many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk” and that “the MAGA gang” was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.” ABC ended Kimmel’s suspension a week later, after hundreds of celebrities and prominent figures in response urged Americans “fight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights.”

The White House Correspondents’ Association hosts the annual dinner to award journalists and raise funds for scholarships. The dinner was hosted at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Saturday before the shooter interrupted the event. Trump has called for the dinner to be rescheduled in the next 30 days.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday that Trump and his administration officials were likely the intended targets of the gunman, meaning that the shooting appears to mark the third known attempt on Trump’s life in the past 21 months. Allen is to appear in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Monday, according to multiple reports.