Right-Wing ’60 Minutes’ Reporter Busted Grinning With Trump
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60 Minutes reporter Ross Douthat poses with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. The interview, filmed Friday in the Oval Office, marks Trump’s first one-on-one sit-down since…
Donald Trump’s crushing midterm defeat didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the conservative 60 Minutes newcomer tapped to handle the president’s first major post-election interview.
Ross Douthat, who joined CBS in July from The New York Times, was pictured grinning like the Cheshire Cat alongside Trump, 80, behind the Resolute Desk in a photo posted Friday by the White House’s “Rapid Response” X account.
The interview, filmed Friday in the Oval Office, marks Trump’s first one-on-one sit-down since Republicans suffered sweeping election losses Tuesday. It will air Sunday on the beleaguered 60 Minutes, the flagship newsmagazine of MAGA-fied CBS News.
CBS owner and Trump booster David Ellison appointed MAGA-curious Bari Weiss, 42, as editor-in-chief of CBS News in October 2025.
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