Jimmy Fallon Responds To Donald Trump’s Recent Tweet About Him

Last year, The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon spoke about the backlash he received in a 2016 interview that critics said went too far in “humanizing” Donald Trump. It included a moment in which Fallon ruffled the hair of Trump, one of the moments that were criticized.

He said at the time: ““I didn’t do it to humanize him. I almost did it to minimize him. I didn’t think that would be a compliment: ‘He did the thing that we all wanted to do.’”

President Trump seemingly just learned of the interview, as he commented about it on Twitter.

.@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!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018

During last night’s episode of The Tonight Show, Fallon spoke about the tweet: “Before we begin, I just wanna give a shout out to our show’s No. 1 fan — the President of the United States! As you may have heard, last night, the President of the United States went after me on Twitter. So Melania, if you’re watching, I don’t think your anti-bullying campaign is working. 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? Why are you tweeting at me?!) That’s real. It’s crazy. The president went after me on Twitter. It’s pretty much the only thing I have in common with NFL players. In response, I made a donation in Trump’s name to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or ‘RAICES’. When Trump heard, he was like, “I love RAICES — they’re my favorite peanut butter cup.”