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Jimmy Fallon Channels Trump Criticism Through James Taylor

The host directed perhaps his sharpest criticism of Trump to date with a spot-on cover of the perpendicular cool and calm of James Taylor's classic "Fire and Rain."

"I didn't do it to humanize him," Jimmy Fallon last May, of the much-criticized hair ruffling he gave a pre-election Donald Trump during a. "I almost did it to minimize him. I didn't think that would be a compliment."

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