President Trump chastised the leading late night talk show hosts on Monday, arguing Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel — all three of whom who have cracked pointed jokes at Trump’s expense — were “no talent” individuals.
“I mean, honestly are these people funny? And I can laugh at myself,” Trump said during an evening campaign event for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. “Frankly, if I couldn’t I’d be in big trouble. But there’s no talent. They’re not like talented people. Johnny Carson was talented.” Carson was host of the “Tonight Show” on NBC from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
“Some of these guys — no seriously, I mean, this guy on CBS has no talent,” Trump added, a reference to “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert.
Trump also addressed his feud with Fallon, the current host of the “Tonight Show,” which was prompted by Fallon conceding that he regretted rubbing Trump’s hair in an interview prior to the 2016 election.
“So Jimmy Fallon apologized. He apologized for humanizing me, the poor guy,” Trump said. “Because now he’s going to lose all of us. Now he’s going to lose all of us.”
On Sunday, Trump attacked Fallon and told him to “be a man” after the reports emerged.
“.@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,” Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday. “He called & said ‘monster ratings.’ Be a man Jimmy!”
Trump also confessed he wouldn’t go on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” as he recounted how Kimmel would wait on the sidewalk and open the door for him ahead of past appearances Trump did on his show.
“Now I wouldn’t do his show,” Trump said. “He’s terrible.”
Trump also claimed that American filmmaker David Lynch’s career in Hollywood was over, comments that come after the Guardian reported that Lynch claimed Trump “could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history.”
