After speaking this week with Mario Lopez on Extra, the Presidential nominee stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, giving an interview not long after the second GOP debate came to an end on CNN.
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Fallon, wearing a dark suit and Trump-like toupee, told Clinton they haven’t seen each other since his “last wedding”.
The Trump character also doled out campaign advice to Clinton, telling her that she sounds like a robot. Clinton said prompters served a objective , citing Barack Obama’s success in communicating his messages exactly how he wants; then she deepened her voice and continued: “But I could go more stream of consciousness”.
Later in the show when Fallon interviewed Clinton as himself, the subject of Trump came up again when the former First Lady invited the talkshow host to touch her hair.
“Are you talking about Bernie Sanders? The headline should be ‘Grandma Knows How to Use Email”, Fallon said.
Clinton was on her latest stop of a new campaign strategy meant to show a amusing and accessible Hillary, and Fallon was just the guy to play along.
To be fair, Clinton asked for it. When she appeared Wednesday on Fallon’s “Tonight Show“, the Democratic front-runner asked Fallon if he’d ever touched Republican rival Donald Trump’s hair. In the Wednesday night sketch, Fallon’s Trump is supposedly having a phone conversation with Clinton.
‘And if I talk to him and make him amusing and make him look good, that’s my job.
And Clinton didn’t hesitate to ask the important questions.
“The stuff that’s in it is really boring people, which kind of hurts my feelings”, Clinton concluded.
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That approach, she said, is something “you can do that without a teleprompter”. “Do you know how to do all these things?” “You know this is a huge election”, Clinton said in her best Trump voice. “That’s what I’m fighting for”, Clinton said, asking faux Trump about his stance on women’s rights. Emmy Award- and Grammy Award-winning comedian Jimmy Fallon brings a high-tempo energy to the storied NBC franchise with his welcoming interview style, love of audience participation, spot-on impersonations and innovative sketches.
