--- title: Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers Talk Donald Trump Interview description: Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers discussed the controversial Tonight Show interview during which Fallon ruffled Donald Trump's hair. canonical: https://time.com/4665216/jimmy-fallon-addresses-trump-interview/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-09T16:05:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:56.576Z og:title: Jimmy Fallon Finally Comments on His Infamous Donald Trump Interview og:description: "It got a pretty big reaction" og:url: https://time.com/4665216/jimmy-fallon-addresses-trump-interview/ 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: Jimmy Fallon Finally Comments on His Infamous Donald Trump Interview twitter:description: "It got a pretty big reaction" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Fallon Finally Comments on His Infamous Donald Trump Interview  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 9, 2017 4:05 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 9, 2017 4:05 PM UTC After [Jimmy Fallon](http://time.com/4622161/jimmy-fallon-laughing/) was accused of “[normalizing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMYjS97omY)” President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4663740/donald-trump-travel-ban-enactment/) when he [ruffled the then-presidential nominee’s hair](http://time.com/4496425/donald-trump-hair-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/) in September during what many saw as a softball interview on _The Tonight_ _Show_, the late night host didn’t have [much to say](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/09/jimmy-fallon-donald-trump-interview-response) about the incident. But when Seth Meyers joined him for a chat Wednesday night, he revisited the controversial moment. The _Saturday Night Live_ alums first reminisced about starring alongside Trump in a 2004 sketch called “Fathers and Sons” before Meyers brought up the backlash Fallon received. “We had him on the show, and I messed his hair up,” Fallon said. “It got a pretty big reaction…yeah.” However, Meyers wasn’t looking to criticize him, he wanted some of the credit. “I was insulted by the reaction because I know after that happened, you took some heat, and some people said you are the reason he won,” he said. “And I’m so insulted by that because _I_ am the reason he won. I made fun of him \[at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner\] in 2011, that’s the night he decided to run. I kicked the hornet’s nest, you just rubbed a hornet’s head!” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4665216/jimmy-fallon-addresses-trump-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4665216/jimmy-fallon-addresses-trump-interview/"},"headline":"Jimmy Fallon Finally Comments on His Infamous Donald Trump Interview","datePublished":"2017-02-09T16:05:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:56.576Z","description":"\"It got a pretty big reaction\"","url":"https://time.com/4665216/jimmy-fallon-addresses-trump-interview/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Seth Meyers","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"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/4665216/jimmy-fallon-addresses-trump-interview/","name":"Jimmy Fallon Finally Comments on His Infamous Donald Trump Interview"}}]}] ```