Spin Cycle: What You Saw On Trump’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview — And What You Didn’t

President Donald Trump sat for an interview with CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell on October 31 — which aired Sunday on “60 Minutes” — and the pair discussed everything from China and tariffs to former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

Trump himself teased the interview that aired Sunday evening, but he could not resist taking a jab at the network over the recent lawsuit — which he won — over a pre-election “60 Minutes” interview with Harris. CBS parent company Paramount paid out millions after the parts of the interview that made the cut for the final broadcast were apparently edited to make Harris sound less incoherent.

Aboard Air Force One, Trump joked about the Harris interview as he previewed his own appearance. Saying that he’d likely be delayed but planned to watch his own interview, he added, “Let’s see if they treat me better than they treat other people. Although, I do say this, they treated Kamala very well. In fact, they changed her answers.”

???? JUST IN – PRESIDENT TRUMP: I’ll try to watch my 60 Minutes interview. Let’s see if they treated me better. I will say THIS – they treated KAMALA very well! In fact, they changed her answers! ???? pic.twitter.com/Ek5YFNNmoS

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 2, 2025

Trump also jabbed at the network during the interview, but those comments never made it to air.

“And actually ’60 Minutes’ paid me a lot of money. And you don’t have to put this on because I don’t want to embarrass you, and I’m sure you’re not. I think you have a great new leader, frankly, because the young woman that’s leading your whole enterprise is a great, from what I know, I don’t know her, but I hear she’s a great person,” Trump said, referencing Free Press founder Bari Weiss.

“[They replaced [former President Joe Biden] with somebody, the press got behind her. Oh, they were so behind her. But eventually she failed because she couldn’t speak. She wasn’t a very intelligent person, in my opinion. But she couldn’t speak properly. She could not speak,” Trump said of Harris. “And actually, ’60 Minutes’ paid me a lotta money … But ’60 Minutes’ was forced to pay me — a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news.”

In another segment that never aired, Trump once again brushed off the possibility that he would run for president again in 2028 — while taking aim at the 2020 election in the process.

“I like so many people. We have an unbelievable bench. We could run two people together. We have a great bench. So I don’t wanna start talking about elections. It’s too early. One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged,” he said. “And a lotta people say when it’s rigged you’re allowed to do it again. It was rigged. And it’s been caught. And they — and you see the same information that everybody else does. And it’s coming out now in spades. But with all of that, we have a great bench.”

In some of the comments that did make it to air, Trump scolded O’Donnell for asking him to reveal military plans with regard to Taiwan.

When the CBS anchor asked Trump why he wouldn’t just announce now what he might do if China were to invade Taiwan, the president balked.

“Well — I don’t want to give away — I can’t give away my secrets,” Trump shot back. “I don’t want to be one of these guys that tells you exactly what’s gonna happen if something happens. The other side knows, but — I’m not somebody that tells you everything because you’re asking me a question. But they understand what’s gonna happen. And — he has openly said, and his people have openly said at meetings, ‘We would never do anything while President Trump is president,’ because they know the consequences.”

???? BREAKING: President Trump BODIES 60 Minutes after she begs for his secret military plans if China were to invade Taiwan

CBS: Why not say what you’ll do?!

TRUMP: “I can’t give away my secrets! I’m not somebody that tells YOU everything because you’re asking me a question!”… pic.twitter.com/R1MwGAOX5F

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 2, 2025

As the wide ranging interview continued, Trump called for Republicans to remove the filibuster — or at least carve out an exception to put an end to the ongoing government shutdown, touted his recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, pushed back on claims that prosecutions of former National Security Adviser John Bolton and former FBI Director James Comey were politically motivated, and claimed that ICE agents were not going far enough to remove illegal aliens from the country.

60 minutes tries baiting Trump and getting him to condemn ICE and say they’ve gone too far but Trump had the perfect response:

“I think they [ICE] HAVEN’T GONE FAR ENOUGH.. you have to get the people out… Many of them are m*rderers.. criminals.”

BOOM ????

WE STAND WITH ICE ???????? pic.twitter.com/kQwCEKkOt4

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 2, 2025

“I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama,” Trump told O’Donnell.

You can watch Trump’s full extended interview HERE: