On Friday, Jimmy Fallon mocked former President Donald Trump. He mockingly suggested Trump to try to boost audience numbers at his first 2024 campaign rally in South Carolina this weekend, amid predictions of a poor turnout. The former president could offer a “free classified document” to the first 10,000 people who show up or even move the event to the parking lot of the Chiefs-Bengals NFL playoff, cracked the “Tonight Show” host.
Fallon also imagined Trump enticing people with a trailer premiere for “IV4NKA,” a spoof version of horror film “M3GAN” starring his daughter Ivanka Trump as the titular doll.
In a new interview this week, Jimmy Fallon opened up about how the intense backlash to his hair-ruffling interview with Donald Trump just two months before the 2016 election affected him personally.
“It was definitely a down time,” Fallon told The Hollywood Reporter this week. “
You go, ‘Alright, we get it. I heard you. You made me feel bad. So now what? Are you happy? I’m depressed. Do you want to push me more? What do you want me to do? You want me to kill myself? What would make you happy? Get over it.’”
Fallon went on to apologize, saying he never intended to “normalize” Trump, nor did he “want to make anyone angry—I never do and I never will. It’s all in the fun of the show. I made a mistake. I’m sorry if I made anyone mad. And, looking back, I would do it differently.”
The Tonight Show showrunner Katie Hockmeyer recently discussed the fallout from that interview with The Daily Beast, saying, “Of course, no one likes to be criticized and in that moment I don’t think anyone knew what the future was going to hold. But I feel like we’ve moved on from that and we’ve done a lot of wonderful things this year.”
