Experiencing serious Trump fatigue, Samantha Bee posed an important question on Monday night’s episode of Full Frontal: “Why do so many Americans think playing footsie with fringe hate groups is a disqualifier from polite society, much less the presidency?” Her conclusion: largely NBC, who from The Apprentice to Saturday Night Live to, as of last week, popular late-night shows like The Tonight Show, has “gladly nurtured Trump’s celebrity.”
Jimmy Fallon’s recent softball interview of Donald Trump sparked outrage from various media outlets, but it was especially gratifying to see a late-night peer really rip into the whole stunt. Bee called the interview a tacit endorsement of a “race-baiting demagogue,” and after showing a clip-reel of Fallon straining to present Trump in an empathetic light, she had a stern message for the Tonight Show host: “Aw, Trump can be a sweetheart with someone who has no reason to be terrified of him.”
