“What are your comments or what is your take on what he is doing?” Fallon asked the Democratic candidate early in the interview.

Sanders did not hold back. “Throughout history we’ve had the demagogues trying to divert attention away from the real issues,” he said. “What somebody like Trump is trying to do is to divide us up. A few months ago we were supposed to hate Mexicans, and he thinks they are all criminals and rapists. And now we are 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 given the problems that we face, we’ve got to stand together, come together and create decent life for all of our people and stop this scapegoating of one group or another,” Sanders continued, pivoting to his preferred wheelhouse of economic policy.

Looking past the Democratic primary, Sanders said, “I look forward to beating Donald Trump. I will enjoy that race very, very much.”