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Jimmy Fallon is opening up about the backlash he received for that moment he ruffled now President Donald Trump’s hair.

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00:00This episode of The Hollywood Reporter News is brought to you by American Airlines,

00:08Hollywood's favorite airline. Jimmy Fallon is opening up about the backlash he received

00:12for that moment when he ruffled now-president Donald Trump's hair. After The Tonight Show

00:17host's playful interview with Trump last fall, Fallon's behavior was swiftly criticized as

00:22normalizing a divisive candidate prone to making shocking statements and using hateful rhetoric.

00:27Fallon told The New York Times in a new profile,

00:30"...I didn't do it to humanize him. I almost did it to minimize him. I didn't think that

00:35would be a compliment. He did the thing that we all wanted to do."

00:38The host says the backlash led him to avoid Twitter and online news. He revealed,

00:42"...I'm a people pleaser. If there's one bad thing on Twitter about me, it will make me upset.

00:46So after this happened, I was devastated. I didn't mean anything by it. I was just trying to have fun."

00:52But Fallon didn't address the controversy on air. He said,

00:55"...I didn't talk about it, and I should have talked about it. I regret that."

01:00For more from Fallon's extended New York Times profile, including his thoughts on Stephen Colbert

01:04and how the network feels about the ratings race, head to THR.com.

01:08I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter News.