Jimmy goes to town, and then tries to mess up his own hair to make Donald feel better. If everything else about Trump is unpredictable or suspicious, at least now we know this isn’t.
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If there was a time to pander to Trump or treat him like an ordinary candidate, it passed several hundred comments about banning Muslims and Mexicans ago.
“You say some shocking things”, Fallon said.
“But I’m trying not to anymore”, he said, adding a smile.
“Next time I see you, you could be the president of the United States”, Fallon told Trump.
Clinton laughed and high-fived the late-night host, who then made a show of applying hand sanitizer.
“I’m saying I would like him to be on the show”, he said.
“Trump has appeared on “The Tonight Show” before and gotten similarly soft treatment, grinning and nodding through Fallon’s cheeseball questions and gleeful impressions of the candidate”, the Atlantic chastised Fallon Friday. It is the way he let Donald Trump look good on his show. In a Washington Post interview posted Thursday, he refused to say whether he believes President Obama was born in Hawaii.
Trump also described his campaign appearances, in which he waves his arms when speaking before a large crowd, was “a form of exercise”. “I wanted to know if there was something we could do that’s not presidential really …” “I just think it would be good if we got along with Russian Federation”, he continued. That includes media reports that NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum moderator Matt Lauer had been soft on Trump and pounded Hillary Clinton, which puts “unfair” pressure on NBC News’s upcoming debate moderator Lester Holt. I don’t have any feelings about him.
One person wrote: “I don’t fault Jimmy Fallon for not being a journalist”.
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On a more serious note, Trump knocked on Fallon’s wooden desk when he was asked about getting sick.
