US regulator to review Disney broadcast licenses after Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania Trump

"This is unprecedented, unlawful, and going nowhere," she wrote on X. "Companies should challenge it head-on. The First Amendment is on their side."The move comes as the White House has continued to pressure ABC to fire Kimmel. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said on Tuesday that Kimmel should be "shunned for the rest of his life". At the start of his show on Monday night, Kimmel had defended his comments about the first lady. "It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination," he said. "I've been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular," Kimmel added.Earlier on Monday, Trump had called his late-night sketch a "call to violence" and Melania Trump accused Kimmel of deepening "the political sickness within America". The US president and his wife were evacuated unharmed from a gala dinner on Saturday night after a gunman opened fire near a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton.The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, was tackled by authorities near a staircase leading down to a ballroom where the White House Correspondents' dinner was taking place. Hundreds of journalists, officials and public figures attending. The suspect is now charged with trying to assassinate the president.