Overview
- The network, which aired a 13-minute segment Sunday from a roughly 40-minute sit-down with President Trump, also released the complete video and transcript online.
- Independent reviewers led by Juliet Jeske of Decoding Fox News compared the broadcast with the full version and found long answers cut short, with some responses clipped mid-sentence.
- Portions that did not air included Trump’s winding comments about prisons and mental institutions, his objections to transgender athletes, and a claim likening No Kings protests to the Ku Klux Klan.
- During the interview Trump said CBS paid him $38 million in a past settlement, though reporting on that deal puts the figure at $16 million.
- CBS posted the full materials under a policy created by Trump’s 2024 lawsuit over a Kamala Harris interview, which now requires releasing complete transcripts of eligible presidential interviews.