President Donald J. Trump sat down with CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell for a wide-ranging interview with “60 Minutes” that will be broadcast on this week’s edition of the network’s Sunday evening flagship.
It’s the first interview with CBS since he sued over the long-running news program’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris before last year’s election, alleging that her answers were selectively edited. CBS parent Paramount Global agreed to pay Trump $16 million in July to settle the matter, infuriating Democrats.
Trump was interviewed by O’Donnell on Friday at Mar-a-Lago about topics including the ongoing government shutdown, foreign policy, the enforcement of federal immigration laws, including the deployment of the National Guard, and his just-completed Asian trip during which he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The network teased the interview with a shot of Trump sitting across from O’Donnell that was posted to X on Friday, touting the “exclusive, wide-ranging interview.”
SUNDAY ON 60 MINUTES: @NorahODonnell speaks with President Donald J. Trump in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview.
O’Donnell interviewed Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday. pic.twitter.com/rZNIgs5gRI
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 31, 2025
The interview is guaranteed to have a huge audience, with it airing immediately after the NFL contest between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills, a nationally televised rematch of last season’s AFC Championship game. It will give the president an opportunity to make the case for his policies directly to the American people with a guaranteed viewership of millions.
Trump’s return to “60 Minutes” is a coup for new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss who was recently hired to shake things up at a time when public faith in media has reached new lows due to biased and “woke” reporting, with one prime example being the perception that the Harris interview was doctored to make her appear more coherent and qualified to assume the presidency if elected.
According to The New York Times, Weiss made a big impression right off the bat when she stunned “60 Minutes” staff by asking, “Why does the country think you’re biased?” during a private meeting.
The question was met with “stunned awkwardness” by the propagandists who “view their coverage as firmly nonpartisan,” the paper reported.
Proving that bringing in Weiss was the right move at the right time by CEO David Ellison, former CBS anchor Dan Rather condemned the hire as “a dark day in the halls of CBS News.”
“Rather than doing their jobs as sentinels of democracy, who independently cover the news and hold the powerful accountable, they now have to be concerned about how their pitches, their stories, and their scripts will be received by someone with a clear political agenda,” Rather wrote in a screed posted to his Substack page.
Described by the New York Times as an “extraordinary concession to a sitting president by a major media organization,” the $16 million settlement will be paid to Trump’s future presidential library and includes an agreement that the network will release transcripts of all future “60 Minutes” interviews with presidential candidates. The settlement did not include an apology.
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