On Tuesday's Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon told guest Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that if he were to win the presidential election, he would be the first president from New York since F.D.R. — "That is a model to follow, he was a great president," Sanders said — but so would Donald Trump. Given Trump's headline-grabbing proposal to ban all Muslims from traveling to the U.S., Fallon asked Sanders for his thoughts. Sanders had some to share, about Trump and other past "demagogues trying to divert attention away from the real issues."
America has "enormous" problems, Sanders said, but Trump is trying to "divide us up. A few months ago we were supposed to hate Mexicans — and he thinks they're all criminals or rapists — and now we're supposed to hate Muslims. And that kind of crap is not going to work in the United States of America. I think what the American people understand is that, given the problems that we face, that we've got to stand together, come together, and create a decent life for all of our people, and stop this scapegoating of one group or another."
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