Sept. 12--Donald Trump made his late-night TV appearance as a presidential candidate Friday in a self-deprecating sketch on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."
"I'm about to go out for my interview with Jimmy Fallon," the front-runner for the Republican nomination says into a phone as he sits in front of a lighted dressing room mirror. "I'll call you back after I comb my hair. Talk to you in three hours."
Through that mirror he sees Fallon in a suit and Trump's signature coiffure.
"Wow, I look fantastic," Fallon says.
"No, we look fantastic," the real Trump replies.
"Alright, me -- we've got a big interview with Jimmy Fallon coming up," says Fallon as Trump. "But let's be honest. Fallon's a lightweight. No way he deserves to interview me. The only one qualified to interview me is me."
"Me interview me. That's a great idea," the real Trump says.
After an exchange with the requisite Trumpisms of "huge" and "genius" sprinkled throughout, Fallon's Trump says, "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. I was looking at my beautiful reflection. I'm like a Greek God that just took a bath in pumpkin spice latte."
Trump sat for an actual interview with Fallon after the sketch, which NBC is embargoing until it airs on the East Coast.
NBC was one of the companies that cut business ties with Trump due to derogatory comments made about Mexican immigrants when he announced he was running for president. The network dropped Trump's beauty pageants, which they had partnered on, and said the real estate mogul would not appear in future seasons of the reality show "Celebrity Apprentice."
He has appeared on NBC's news programs since his campaign launched and frequently calls in to cable news channel MSNBC's program "Morning Joe."
