Jimmy Fallon Trashes Trump on Charlottesville

Jimmy Fallon didn't do a monologue on Monday's Tonight Show, or any opening comedy bits. He went right to his first guest, Susan Sarandon, after delivering these remarks:

Jimmy takes a moment at the start of the show to address the events in #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/gCvv1OM8gq

— Fallon Tonight (@FallonTonight) August 15, 2017

JIMMY FALLON: As kids grow up, they need people to look up to, to show them what's right and good. They need parents and teachers, and they need leaders who appeal to the best in us. The fact that it took the president two days to come out and clearly denounce racists and white supremacists is shameful. And I think he finally spoke out because people everywhere stood up and said something. It's important for everyone, especially white people in this country, to speak out against this. Ignoring it is just as bad as supporting it.

Fallon begins his remarks with a lie, calling The Tonight Show an "apolitical show." Fallon pummels Trump every night, every single night, something he never did to Obama.

While I unequivocally agree with Fallon's remarks about the importance of denouncing hate, racism and white supremacists, I think he's wrong to use his platform to call President Trump "shameful" and falsely declare that the president took two days to denounce the racists and white supremacists. When Fallon goes further and states that Trump only denounced the haters because people pressured him into it, he goes too far.

This narrative being espoused by the Leftist media and Leftist entertainers, that Trump supports white supremacists, is just too much.

I would not stand for an American president acting as an apologist for neo-Nazis and racists.

What the hell is going on? It's reported as if neo-Nazis are prevalent in American society and Trump is their leader.

I know a lot of people. People I spend time with aren't racist. I personally don't know a single white supremacist. If I did, that person would be out of my life.

Yes, I know they exist, but most Americans don't embrace that ideology. Why are people insisting that about half of all Americans are racist, when it's just not the case?

The good people need to make sure that the bad people stay where they are, isolated.