The 54 most absurd lines from Donald Trump's "60 Minutes" interview ⏱️
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One year to the day of Donald Trump suing CBS News for an utterly specious claim that the network deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris, the president sat down with anchor Norah O’Donnell for a 90(!)-minute interview over the weekend.
While CBS didn’t run the entire interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, they did provide a full transcript of the conversation. (You can see it here.)
I went through it line by line to pick out the stuff from Trump you really need to see.
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To the Lines!
“We had the COVID moment, which was not-- attractive as far as I was concerned. I wasn’t so happy.”
O’Donnell started off by asking Trump how he got along with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Good to know that the Covid-19 pandemic was not “attractive” to Trump. And away we go!
“Well, I got sort of everything that we wanted.”
Reviews of what Trump (and the United States) actually got out of the meeting with Xi are much more mixed.
“I mean, we have tremendous rare earth, and it’s going to be-- you know, it’s going to be-- it’ll be a strength, but it won’t really be a strength if everybody has it. Everyone’s gonna have it pretty soon.”
“Tremendous rare earth.”
“We met in South Korea, as you saw, right? A lot of people watched.”
I never ceases to amaze me that Trump feels the need to point out that lots of people watched an international summit he was involved in. Like, you are the president! You don’t need to worry about ratings! People will watch!
“Right now we’re winning it because we’re producing electricity like never before by allowing the companies to make their own electricity, which was my idea, which nobody, frankly, had thought of.”
Humility, thy name is Donald Trump.
