If you’ve been on Twitter in the past couple days you’ve seen the picture: Jimmy Fallon smiling ear to ear at the Tonight Show desk with his hand buried in Trump’s thick head of corn silk hair, as Trump smiles like a parent reluctantly indulging a child’s wish.

And that’s exactly how Fallon approached the rest of the interview. He stumbled over his words, he giggled, he blushed. Basically, he treated Trump the way he treats any other guest.

The problem is Trump isn’t any other guest.

The best tweet I’ve seen about the interview was from @BRANDONWARDELL, and read:

hitler: I want 2 kill the jews

fallon: *slamming his desk crying laughing* ur wild ur seriously wild, man

I’m in a weird place with this because, while I’m no fan of Trump, I am a fan of Jimmy Fallon. I started watching Late Night pretty regularly when I was a depressed high school freshman and Fallon, and Steve Higgins, and the LEGENDARY ROOTS CREW helped me get through the pretty dark year that followed. I’m thankful for Jimmy Fallon, and the above-and-beyond amount of effort he put to making that show and the Tonight Show consistently entertaining. By all accounts, he’s a funny, affable, kind, good guy.

But the Trump interview highlights a larger problem with Fallon’s approach. He’s never been a great interviewer. He fawns over older celebrities, and pals around wit his contemporaries. The clip that went viral a couple years ago of Fallon and Bradley Cooper unable to ask or answer a single question because they were laughing so hard is an outlier, but not by much. Undoubtedly, Fallon’s Tonight Show is fun for the guests. They get complimented, they get to joke around, the questions are softballs, and they get to be in a skit or a lip sync battle or play giant beer pong.

But, this is exactly the wrong time for Fallon to be doing what he normally does. Against all odds, Trump really did it: he’s acting more presidential. He responded calmly when he was reprimanded by a Flint pastor for bringing up Hillary Clinton during a church visit, he admitted to Dr. Oz that he could stand to lose some weight, he let Jimmy Fallon mess up his hair. He’s been self-deprecating, he’s been funny, he’s been restrained.

But he’s still Donald Trump.

He’s still the conman who swindled Trump University students out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. He’s still the bigot who proposed a ban on all Muslims entering the country and suggested that the ones who are already here be required to wear some kind of identification. He’s still the liar who invented the memory of seeing thousands of Muslims celebrating in the streets of New Jersey when the towers came down.

But the media has gotten used to having a short memory span when it comes to Trump. While Hillary’s emails have never left the public consciousness, Trump does so much messed up stuff that the media can’t keep up. We forget about him bragging about his penis size, because this week he’s insulting the family of a fallen soldier. We forget about him using a Star of David to link Hillary Clinton to with the stereotype of greedy, Wall Street Jews, because this week he’s joking that NRA members should shoot the Democratic nominee.

He’s made the pivot. Right now, he’s pretty likable.

But, he’s still Trump.

Jimmy Fallon is just the wrong person to remind us.