By Dawn Chmielewski and David Shepardson LOS ANGELES, April 28 (Reuters) - A joke ⁠by ⁠talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that ⁠prompted calls from the White House for the ABC TV network to fire the comedian ​has triggered the first crisis facing Walt Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro.

Both President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, are calling on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel after the late-night comic joked last week that the first lady had “the glow of an expectant widow.”