Jimmy Fallon is firing back at Donald Trump following the President’s attack on the late-night host earlier this week.
Though Fallon is traditionally the least likely to step into the fray when it comes to swipes from Trump, he did just that on Wednesday night’s Tonight Show, slipping in a pointed response to the President in the form of a song.
Trump scrawled multiple rants against Colbert, Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel on Truth Social in the days following the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next,” Trump wrote on Friday, July 18th. “Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.”
“The word is, and it’s a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone,” Trump continued on Tuesday. “These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television.”
In yesterday’s monologue, Fallon implied those rants were Trump’s attempts to deflect from his association with Jeffrey Epstein.
“According to a new poll, just 17% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the Epstein files,” Fallon quipped in a series of monologue jokes on the topic. “17? Good lord, he can’t even get that number over 18.” Then, noting that Trump is “pretty desperate to change the subject” from Epstein, the host announced he had written “a little song about it.”
“The whole dang country wants to know where’s the Epstein list,” Fallon began while strumming a guitar. After listing Trump’s other recent focuses like sugar in Coca-Cola and NFL team names, he shifted to the fact that Trump and Epstein appear in a number of photos together (even more of which surfaced this week).
“So many pictures of those two, yeah, they are not rare,” Fallon sang. “Time to talk some trash about me, Kimmel, and Colbert.” A photo of the three hosts appeared over Fallon’s shoulder. Fallon smirked as he paused to accommodate the audience’s cheers of support.
Fallon has generally not responded to past Trump attacks. The then-former president memorably took aim at the NBC host while on the campaign trail last year, calling him “weak and pathetic” for publicly expressing regret over his infamous Trump hair tousle, and crying “Bring back Johnny [Carson]!”
In a show of solidarity for fellow talk show host Stephen Colbert, Fallon joined Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, and Andy Cohen for a rare joint appearance on The Late Show Monday night.
