WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is telling “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon to “be a man” and stop “whimpering” about the personal anguish he felt over the backlash he received after messing up Trump’s hair during a 2016 campaign appearance on Fallon’s late-night talk show.
Fallon recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he “made a mistake” on the Sept. 15, 2016, episode and would do it differently.
The comments didn’t appear to sit well with Trump.
The president tweeted Sunday: “.@jimmyfallon is now whimpering to all that he did the famous “hair show” with me (where he seriously messed up my hair), & that he would have now done it differently because it is said to have “humanized” me-he is taking heat. He called & said “monster ratings.” Be a man Jimmy!”
Fallon responded on Twitter with a nod to the plight of young immigrants caught up in administration policies.
“In honor of the President’s tweet I’ll be making a donation to RAICES in his name,” Fallon said, referring to a nonprofit organization that provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children, families and refugees in Texas.
Of course, the ‘heat’ Fallon took was 1 1/2 years ago. He’s feeling regret now that he may have done even a minor thing that may have helped Trump get elected. It has nothing to do with the ‘heat.’
More important, the implied message here is: “Don’t any of you feel regret for voting for me. Don’t listen to those who are giving my people ‘heat’ or saying that some are ‘humanizing’ me. They don’t matter. Only I matter. Be a man.”
ETA: "And that goes double for Congressional Republicans. "
Members of his Administration are getting some backlash to his child separation policy. Message from the boss-man: man up! (Or woman up, in Nielsen’s and SHS’ cases.)
Yeah be a man. accept that Donald is bald and don’t try to hide it with a cheesy comb over!
Let’s face it for decades the Tonight Show was the dominant late night franchise. After the hair musing Fallon lost that position to other more political comedians like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. I don’t know if the hair mussing alone was Fallon’s downfall. He really is a traditional Tonight Show comedian like Johnny Carson or Jay Leno. Political humor is hard for him. I suspect he is also feeling the heat from the very political Seth Meyers who I am sure NBC views as his successor. In less political times Fallon’s Tonight Show would still be on top.
Fallon may as well have had Duterte on and performed a skit together about extra-judicial executions. Screw him. Trump was a known sociopath and xenophobic bigot when Fallon had him on, he deserves whatever angst and ratings losses that have accrued to him.