'I think we have enough of an interview here. Let's go.' Donald Trump posts full 60 Minutes interview showing Lesley Stahl asking 'are you ready for tough questions?' before he walks out after 37 minutes of sparring
President Donald Trump posted his full interview with '60 Minutes' on Facebook Thursday showing that he cut the back-and-forth short after 37 minutes.
'I think we have enough of an interview, let's go, let's go,' Trump said, after someone off-screen had mentioned that the vice president was due to join him for the Q&A in five minutes.
The White House had taken their own footage of the CBS News interview for the 'archive.'
Trump bristled that Stahl started out the sit-down by asking him, 'Are you ready for some tough questions?'
He brought that up directly before he cut the interview short. 'Excuse me. Lesley you started with your first statement was are you ready for tough questions. That's no way to talk,' Trump told Stahl.
He also pointed out that Democratic nominee Joe Biden gets 'softball after softball.'
'I've seen all his interviews, he's never been asked a question that's hard,' Trump said.
President Donald Trump posted his '60 Minutes' interview to Facebook Thursday, which showed that he walked out after 37 minutes and took offense that journalist Lesley Stahl had kicked off the sit-down by asking, 'Are you ready for some tough questions?'
In the footage the president shared to his Facebook page he can be seen getting out of the chair and saying, 'I think we have enough of an interview, let's go, let's go,' after 37 minutes with '60 Minutes'' Lesley Stahl
President Donald Trump (left) sat down with Lesley Stahl (right) of '60 Minutes' on Tuesday, didn't like how the interview went and released the whole thing before the show could broadcast it
The president also pushed that the '60 Minutes' interview wasn't supposed to be hard.
'When you set up the interview you didn't say that,' he told Stahl. 'You said, "Oh, let's have a little interview." And here's what I do say, you don't ask Joe Biden. I saw your interview with Joe Biden.'
Stahl interjected, 'I've never done a Joe Biden.'
Trump called it 'a joke.'
Norah O'Donnell sat down with Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, for their interview with '60 Minutes.'
While Stahl started off by telling the president the interview would be 'tough,' on several occasions she pointed out how loved the president is by his supporters and asked why he didn't use that influence to push them to wear masks or lay off Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who was targeted by right-wing militia members in part of a kidnapping plot.
Trump said he believed 'masks possibly worked' and that a 'lot of people are wearing masks' to his rallies, which have packed in thousands over the last 11 days, since the president returned to the campaign trail after his battle with coronavirus.
Stahl said she couldn't believe Trump wouldn't push people to be more cautious at the rallies after the White House Rose Garden event to announce Judge Amy Coney Barrett became a 'superspreader' event.
'I tell people to wear masks,' Trump protested.
Stahl shot back, 'No you dont.'
The president then pointed out that his campaign handed out thousands of masks to rally-goers.
'But you look out and they're not wearing them and you don't say, "Please put on your masks,"' Stahl pointed out.
At none of his recent rallies has the president, himself, made the request.
'They love you, they would pay attention,' Stahl urged.
Later Stahl said, 'You are very powerful.'
'If you go after somebody, they take it to heart and there are plots and threats,' Stahl said, using Whitmer and Dr. Anthony Fauci as examples.
Trump also got annoyed at Stahl for suggesting that his rallies were bigger in 2016.
'These are much bigger than I've ever had,' Trump said. 'You just come in here with that negative attitude,' he scoffed.
Trump also got angry when Stahl said he was pleading with suburban women to get their vote.
'You said the other day to suburban women, "Will you please like me please,"' she began.
The president called the way she phrased the question 'misleading' and said it was a joke.
'See, the way you said that is why people think of you and everybody else as fake news,' Trump told Stahl. 'I said kiddingly, "Suburban women you should love me."'
When Stahl pointed out that he was behind in the polls with this group, Trump responded, 'I doubt it, I doubt it.'
'And one of the reasons why is they don't feel you're being upfront about the pandemic,' she said.
Trump then complained, 'You're really quite impossible to convince.'
Stahl also wasn't convinced when Trump called the revelations on a laptop that allegedly belongs to Hunter Biden 'the biggest scandal ou there, Lesley.'
'I think it's one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen and you don't cover it,' Trump said.
Stahl pushed back saying that the authenticity of the laptop's contents, 'can't be verified.'
'What can't be verified?' Trump asked.
The president then claimed that Joe Biden had 'gone into hiding.'
The former vice president has taken several days off the campaign trail.
'He's preparing for the debate,' Stahl said.
Stahl also got conflicting answers from Trump within minutes about the long-promised Republican healthcare plan that would take the place of Obamacare.
'It is developed, it is fully developed,' Trump told her. 'It is going to be announced very soon when we see what happens to Obamacare.'
Obamacare, more formally known as the Affordable Care Act, is facing a court challenge that will be heard by the Supreme Court just weeks after the November election.
'I hope they end it, it will be so good if they end it, because we will come up with a plan,' Trump continued.
Stahl pointed out that Trump had said 'will,' after he had just told her the plan was already done.
'We have large sections of it already done,' Trump answered. 'And we've already come up with plans. Take a look at your various secretaries, various plans that we've already come up with.'
Stahl pointed out Trump's defensive posture during their sit-down.
'It's attack, attack, attack, attack, attack,' she noted.
But as the interview neared its abrupt end she also expressed regret for it being so contentious.
'I didn't want to have this kind of interview,' she said.
The president charged that she shouldn't have started it by telling him she was going to ask tough questions.
'You are president, don't you think you should be accountable to the American people?' she asked.
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