Jimmy Fallon takes it easy on Donald Trump
Donald Trump went on Jimmy Fallon's show on Friday night, and he got exactly what he wanted: an easy ride.
In a 15-minute sit-down interview and a pre-interview skit that touched on Trump's plan to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, Carly Fiorina and the rest of the GOP field, Fallon repeatedly referred to the billionaire entrepreneur as "the Republican frontrunner" and passed up one chance after another to ask tough questions about some of his more controversial remarks.
Trump appeared as a guest of Fallon on NBC's “The Tonight Show,” though the host joked in his opening monologue that it should be called “The Tonight Show starring Donald Trump, featuring a guest appearance by Jimmy Fallon.”
The show kicked off with a fake Trump (Fallon dressed as The Donald — complete with orange skin and blonde pompadour) interviewing himself (the real Trump) at a dressing-room mirror. The faux dressing room, a reprise of a skit Fallon once did with Mick Jagger, was full of gold-framed pictures of Trump.
Fake Trump asked real Trump a series of policy questions through the mirror, because, he explained, "The only one qualified to interview me is me.”
Fallon, as Trump, asked in one exchange how the business mogul would create jobs as president.
"I'm just gonna do it," Trump responded.
"Right," Fallon said as he attempted to mirror Trump’s every hand motion. "But how?"
"By doing it. It just happens. Just by doing it," Trump said.
Fallon then shed his costume, and the two met on the stage for the real interview.
The pair touched briefly on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, acknowledging they were both proud New Yorkers. Trump said the day was a symbol of strength because of the way the city was able to come back: “I’ve never seen anything like that.”
The only moment when Trump seemed slightly unsettled was when Fallon asked if he had ever apologized before.
“I fully think apologizing is a great thing," Trump said. "But you have to be wrong ... I will absolutely apologize sometime in the hopefully distant future if I'm ever wrong."
This week, the candidate has gotten himself in hot water for comments to Rolling Stone magazine about Carly Fiorina’s face. (He later said he was referring to her persona.)
But Trump declined to take another swipe at the only woman seeking the GOP nomination, and Fallon didn’t push him.
"I think she's a very nice woman," Trump said, though he added, "I think she's gonna have a hard time."
Trump said the reason his message is resonating is that all the other Republican candidates were the same.
"I think they want our country to be respected again," he said of GOP voters. "I think they feel that if I'm president, I will do some great things for our country, and we're gonna be respected again. ... There's a movement going on, and it's amazing to watch."
Fallon's one note of criticism was when he told Trump that, with his "off-the-cuff" comments, "you get yourself in a lot of trouble sometimes."
"I think you dig yourself a hole sometimes, a deep hole, and then instead of getting out of the hole, you just dig deeper," Fallon said. "And if you keep digging, eventually you might come out in China and be the president of China."
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