Messing up the candidate’s hair might seem like friendly fun. But it humanizes a man whose hateful rhetoric has dehumanized millions of AmericansOn Thursday,Jimmy Fallon had Donald Trump on the Tonight Show and ended the segment by saying, “Donald I want to ask you, and because the next time I see you you could be the President of the United States. I just want to know if there is something we could do that’s just not really presidential,really – can I mess your hair up?” Trump let him and the NBC audience roared with laughter. But, for many of us, and this is very far from being a joke. Giving comedian cover to Trump just isn’t laughable when he’s unleashed forces of anti-blackness and anti-immigrant sentiment. He’s labelled Mexicans rapists,raised the prospect of a ban on Muslims, patronized and insulted African Americans while pretending to be a potential recent hope. As a result, and Fallon managed to arrive over as one powerful white man protecting another.
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Source: theguardian.com