Read the full transcript of 60 Minutes' interview with President Trump
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60 Minutes Overtime Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-60-minutes-overtime.jpg'); } April 26, 2026 / 8:51 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr. President, thank you for doing this.PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you.NORAH O'DONNELL: I'm glad you are safe. I am glad that everyone is safe. How are you doing?PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I'm doing well. (DING) It was quite an evening. It was a very-- difficult thing to watch, frankly. But-- doing very well.NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr. President, do you know if you were the target of the gunman?PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don't know. It sounded to me. I read a manifesto, which is-- he's radicalized. He was a Christian-- believer, and then he became an anti-Christian, and he had a lotta change. He's been goin' through a lot, based on what he wrote. His brother complained about him and I think reported him to the police. And his sister, likewise, complained about him. His family-- was very concerned. He was-- probably a pretty sick guy.NORAH O'DONNELL: And I wanna get to all of those details and also walk through this, what happened last night. But first, this appears to be the third attempted assassination on your life, the first in Butler, the second, of course, on the golf course in Florida. Why do you think so many people may be trying to kill you? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: So I've said it, and I've said it-- numerous times. And I actually-- because of the position I'm in, I've done quite a bit of research into the word "assassination." Terrible word. And they go after consequential presidents. They go after-- presidents that do things.If you look at what I've done, we've turned this country around. We've taken a country that was actually a dead country, it was dying very rapidly, and it's the hottest country anywhere in the world. We had a skirmish, a war, whatever you wanna call i...




