Breitbard writes President Donald Trump is telling Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon to “be a man” and stop “whimpering” about the personal anguish the NBC funnyman felt over the backlash he received after messing up Trump’s hair during a 2016 campaign appearance on Fallon’s late-night talk show.
Fallon told the Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter’ Podcast this week that he “made a mistake” during the Sept. 15, 2016, episode and would do the Trump interview differently if he could.
.@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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
“I did not do it to ‘normalize’ him or to say I believe in his political beliefs or any of that stuff,” Fallon said.
“It was definitely a down time,” Fallon told the outlet. “There’s 300 people that work here, and so when people are…