In an unusual turn of events, Jimmy Fallon aired a lot of thoughts about US President Donald Trump during the most recent episode of his program, The Tonight Show.
Fallon normally tries to stay out of politics, but he had no choice: On Monday night, Trump fired off a critical tweet at the late-night host, mocking Fallon for saying he regretted an infamous interview between the two in 2016.
Fallon received enormous backlash for the light-hearted conversation and for playfully mussing Trump’s hair, and recently said on a Hollywood Reporter podcast that it was “a mistake” and he wished he would have handled the situation differently.
“Before we begin,” Fallon said at the top of his monologue, “I just want to give a shout out to our show’s number one fan: the President of the United States!”
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The audience laughed appreciatively. “As you may have heard, last night, the President of the United States went after me on Twitter,” Fallon said. “So Melania, if you’re watching, I don’t think your anti-bullying campaign is working.”
Fallon continued: “When I saw that Trump insulted me on Twitter, I was gonna tweet back immediately, but I thought, ‘I have more important things to do.’ Then I thought, ‘Wait, shouldn’t he have more important things to do? He’s the President! What are you doing? You’re the President! Why are you tweeting at me?!'”
Fallon showed the tweet to the audience: “@jimmyfallon is now whimpering to all that he did the famous “hair…
