--- title: Cate Blanchett on Donald Trump VIDEO interview description: Cate Blanchett roasted Donald Trump during while playing 'Emotional Interview' on the 'The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.' canonical: https://time.com/4645155/cate-blanchett-on-trump/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-24T18:19:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:24.895Z og:title: Cate Blanchett Thinks Donald Trump Is 'Absurd and Ridiculous' og:description: During a game of 'Emotional Interview' og:url: https://time.com/4645155/cate-blanchett-on-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cate Blanchett Thinks Donald Trump Is 'Absurd and Ridiculous' twitter:description: During a game of 'Emotional Interview' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Cate Blanchett Thinks It's 'Ridiculous' Donald Trump Is Running America's Economy > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 24, 2017 6:19 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 24, 2017 6:19 PM UTC [Cate Blanchett](http://time.com/4488848/cate-blanchett-kit-harington-unhcr-refugees/) has some thoughts on [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4496257/donald-trump-economic-plan-growth-taxes/), which she shared with fans during a Monday night interview on _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_. During a lively game of “[Emotional Interview](http://people.com/tv/ben-stillers-emotional-interview-on-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon/)“, Blanchett and Fallon had to improvise around rapidly changing prompts that instructed them to act like “exes” or “give bad advice.” During the bad advice segment, Fallon had an idea for Blanchett: take all the money in her savings account and bet it on a racehorse, to which Blanchett countered that she should instead, “give it to Trump.” Blanchett continued her roast of Trump with the next prompt, “Uses too many methaphors.” “It’s great to be doing something about midlife crises because it’s absurd and ridiculous,” she joked. “I mean, almost as absurd and ridiculous as a man who has filed for corporate bankruptcy four times, who’s running the largest economy in the world.” Watch the full segment above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4645155/cate-blanchett-on-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4645155/cate-blanchett-on-trump/"},"headline":"Cate Blanchett Thinks It's 'Ridiculous' Donald Trump Is Running America's Economy","datePublished":"2017-01-24T18:19:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:24.895Z","description":"During a game of 'Emotional Interview'","url":"https://time.com/4645155/cate-blanchett-on-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Late Night","jimmy fallon","Cate Blanchett","The Tonight Show","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4645155/cate-blanchett-on-trump/","name":"Cate Blanchett Thinks It's 'Ridiculous' Donald Trump Is Running America's Economy"}}]}] ```