--- title: Jimmy Fallon Made a Donation in Response to That Trump Tweet description: The president targeted the late night comedian on Twitter over the weekend canonical: https://time.com/5320957/fallon-trump-tweet-raices/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-25T15:52:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:30.754Z og:title: Here's Jimmy Fallon's Response to President Trump's Insult og:description: The president targeted the late night comedian on Twitter over the weekend og:url: https://time.com/5320957/fallon-trump-tweet-raices/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6d0186269503fea/6988adde0b72e3d1e56ebb0c/trump-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Jimmy Fallon's Response to President Trump's Insult twitter:description: The president targeted the late night comedian on Twitter over the weekend twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6d0186269503fea/6988adde0b72e3d1e56ebb0c/trump-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's How Jimmy Fallon Responded to President Trump's 'Be a Man' Insult by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 25, 2018 3:52 PM UTC  Donald Trump during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on Sept. 15, 2016. Donald Trump during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on Sept. 15, 2016.NBC/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 25, 2018 3:52 PM UTC President Donald Trump lashed out at late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon [on Twitter,](http://time.com/5320729/donald-trump-tonight-show-jimmy-fallon/) and instead of mocking the President for his tweet with some comedy, Fallon made a pledge. The Twitter spat all started back in September 2016, when then-candidate Trump [stopped by _The_ _Tonight Show_](http://time.com/4032423/donald-trump-jimmy-fallon/) to chat with Fallon and famously letting the host tousle [his hair](http://time.com/5229937/donald-trump-wind-hair-photos/) during the campaign appearance. Critics said that Fallon’s jocular interview and hair tousling [“humanized” Trump](https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html?referer=https://t.co/f527Kle2DP) in the middle of a heated presidential election, which Fallon said was not his intention at the time. Fallon addressed the fall-out of that appearance in an interview with [_The Hollywood Reporter_](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trump-attacks-jimmy-fallon-hollywood-reporter-podcast-hair-tussle-comment-be-a-man-jimmy-1122965) saying that he “made a mistake” and would do it differently now. That did not sit well the President of the United States. On Sunday, Trump [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1011036519812030467): “.@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!” Instead of responding in kind to the man sitting in the Oval Office, Fallon decided to respond with a commitment. On Monday morning, Fallon tweeted: “In honor of the President’s tweet I’ll be making a donation to RAICES in his name.“ RAICES is an immigration rights organization, fighting Trump’s [family separation](http://time.com/5319334/navy-detainment-centers-zerol-tolerance-immigration-family-separation-policy/) and[ immediate deportation](http://time.com/5320551/trump-immediate-deportation-no-court-hearing/) policies. No word from Trump yet as to whether Fallon’s donation constitutes being “a man”. > [](https://twitter.com/jimmyfallon/status/1011079815057891328) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5320957/fallon-trump-tweet-raices/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5320957/fallon-trump-tweet-raices/"},"headline":"Here's How Jimmy Fallon Responded to President Trump's 'Be a Man' Insult","datePublished":"2018-06-25T15:52:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:30.754Z","description":"The president targeted the late night comedian on Twitter over the weekend","url":"https://time.com/5320957/fallon-trump-tweet-raices/","keywords":["Newsfeed","jimmy fallon","Donald Trump","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6d0186269503fea/6988adde0b72e3d1e56ebb0c/trump-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6d0186269503fea/6988adde0b72e3d1e56ebb0c/trump-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 3","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 3","creditText":"NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5320957/fallon-trump-tweet-raices/","name":"Here's How Jimmy Fallon Responded to President Trump's 'Be a Man' Insult"}}]}] ```