The Roots Mocked Donald Trump to His Face Last Night on “Jimmy Fallon”

Last night, Donald Trump was a guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” The Roots, the “Fallon” house band, play a song to introduce the entrance of every guest on the show. The song they choose for Donald Trump’s entrance was Erykah Badu’s “20 Feet Tall” (from New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh). As Trump entered, the Roots sang the lines “Then you, you built a wall/ A 20-foot wall / So I couldn’t see,” as Think Progress points out.  This seemed to mock Trump’s campaign promise to force Mexico to build and pay for an enormous wall along the U.S.’s southern border. Watch the clip below. The Roots begin playing the song around the 11:30 mark.

It isn’t the first time the Roots have introduced a political guest on “Fallon” with a pointed song. In 2011, they played Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” during Michele Bachmann’s appearance. Afterwards, NBC said they would screen the Roots’ song choices. 

Check out our interview with Questlove about the Michele Bachmann incident. 

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