President Biden was met with effusive praise from Jimmy Fallon in his first late-night visit since taking office

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“You are bringing class back to the office,” The Tonight Show host told the president, who appeared virtually on Friday's show, according to Deadline. When Fallon touched on the polarizing issue of the vaccines, The Tonight Show host put it this way: “The Covid problem. I don’t know what else to do and how to tell people to get the vaccine. At this point I think people are going to do what they will, I guess. I don’t know what to say. Is it the youth that we have to just hope that the kids get us out of this? Because I got vaxxed. I got boosted. I got whatever you want. If you want me to wear red pants, I will wear red pants. I want this thing to go away.” Biden replied: “I think what we ought to do is have more people listen to your song.” He was referring to A Masked Christmas, with Ariana Grande and Megan Thee Stallion. Biden tweeted it out." As Deadline's Ted Johnson notes, "there were many advantages for the White House in doing the interview, as Biden got to stick to his talking points on the infrastructure bill, the Build Back Better Act and the Covid-19 relief package without facing any kind of serious follow ups. It’s likely that Fallon’s broadcast rivals, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, would have slipped in a couple of questions with a harder edge, even if there is no secret where their allegiances lie." Johnson adds: "The chief drawback to the Fallon interview was that it was not in studio and still virtual: Biden was not as relaxed as in past in studio appearances, and he stuck so much to the talking points in the initial portions of the Fallon interview that the president seemed more like he was making the rounds on the Sunday morning talk show than a late night guest shot."