It’s almost time for Donald Trump’s late-night closeup.
Trump sat down with Jimmy Fallon, the host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,” for a Friday evening taping. It will air on Friday night.
Fallon interviewed Trump and also roped the GOP frontrunner into a highly entertaining sketch.
Fallon dressed as Trump and pretended to be primping in the mirror before his “Tonight Show” sit-down.
“Wow, I look fantastic,” Fallon as Trump says.
When he looks in the mirror, he sees the real-life Trump.
“No, WE look fantastic,” Trump as Trump answers.
The actual Trump jokes about how interviewing himself is a great idea. He proceeds to play along as Fallon pokes fun at him and asks who the actual Trump might pick as a Vice President. Gary Busey?
Trump proposes Kanye West.
The contents of Fallon’s interview with Trump are being kept a secret by NBC until the show’s 11:35 p.m. air time.
But the preview provided by NBC shows that the famously egotistical Trump was willing to share some laughs with Fallon at his own expense.
“Should be fun!” Trump wrote on Twitter before the taping.
Friday night marks Trump’s first late-night TV appearance since he entered — and very thoroughly disrupted — the Republican presidential race in June.
It was an opportunity for Trump to show that he can poke fun at himself and play along with a comedian.
While Trump conducts most of his interviews from his Trump Tower, he came over to Fallon’s turf for this one — 30 Rockefeller Center. (The two skyscrapers are only a few blocks apart.)
Around 5 p.m., more than 100 tourists, Trump fans and camera crews were lined up outside the building’s 49th Street entrance, hoping to catch a glimpse of the candidate after the interview.
The Fallon interview comes on the same day that Trump settled a business dispute with the NBC network’s parent company NBCUniversal.
NBC announced its plans to break off corporate ties to Trump in July. But NBC and Trump remained 50-50 owners of the Miss Universe Organization until Friday, when Trump signed the papers to acquire NBC’s stake.
Trump already has another late-night interview lined up: He’s agreed to sit down with Fallon’s chief rival, CBS’s Stephen Colbert, on September 22.