Sarah Palin has hit out at Chrissy Teigen for her inflammatory rhetoric following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The former Alaska governor posted a photo of herself to her Instagram Story on Wednesday asking the model 'who hurt you' as she reshared one of Teigen's old tweets in which she called on her to 'shoot herself in the face.' 'Listen, I don't want much from Sarah Palin,' Teigen wrote in the resurfaced tweet. 'I just want her to admit partial fault, then shoot herself in the face. Is that wrong?' In the years since she made the post, Teigen has apologized for her past, cruel tweets, saying she was 'ashamed' of them and describing herself as an 'insecure, attention-seeking troll' who believed she was being clever. 

But Palin decided to respond to the years-old post on Wednesday, saying that she is 'all for' free speech, but 'when celebrities wield their platforms to wish ill upon others, they don't just tarnish one life - they poison the collective spirit of the world. 'Such cruelty spreads like digital wildfire, breeding division and hate, all for fleeting clout that serves no real purpose. 'Our world's already heavy with negativity, so wishing harm is not only unnecessary, it's a profound waste of influence that could instead uplift, heal and unite.' The Instagram Story comes as conservatives call on liberals to confront their violent rhetoric in the wake of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting. 

Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has previously come under fire for a joke he made ahead of Saturday night's ritzy gala in which he called First Lady Melania Trump an 'expectant widow.' Both President Donald Trump and the First Lady have since called on Kimmel to be fired from his position. 'I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable call to violence, and normally [I] would not be responsive to anything that he said, but this is something far beyond the pale,' the president posted to his Truth Social page on Monday, drawing a direct connection between Kimmel's comments and the shooting. 'Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC ,' he argued.

In a separate post on X, the First Lady said Kimmel's 'hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.' She said the comedian's '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,' Melania continued, calling Kimmel 'a coward' who 'hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. 'Enough is enough,' she declared. 'It is time for ABC to take a stand. 'How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community?' 

Yet Kimmel has claimed his joke was simply about Trump and Melania's 'age difference.' '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. And they know that,' he said. He added: 'I've been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence, in particular. But I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house.'