Trump Sits for Interview With CBS for First Time Since Suing Network

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President Donald Trump sat down with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell on Friday afternoon for the first interview the president has done with the network since suing CBS last year.

The interview, first reported by Semafor, comes a full year after Trump sued CBS due to a selectively edited 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. CBS’s parent company Paramount settled the suit in July, paying the president $16 million.

Since Paramount’s controversial merger with media giant Skydance in August– a deal that required approval from Trump’s Federal Communications Commission– new owner David Ellison has made sweeping changes to CBS, many of which are more in line with the president’s preferences.

In July, the network chose not to renew its contract with Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a frequent critic of the president.

“I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time.

Ellison also installed The Free Press‘ Bari Weiss as the network’s new editor-in-chief in early October. Weiss has reportedly already reached out to one of the president’s most vocal legacy media supporters, CNN’s Scott Jennings.

The relationship between CBS and Trump showed signs of warming around the same time, with the president telling reporters on Air Force One that David and his father Larry Ellison are “big supporters” of Trump.

In the same gaggle, Trump took a swipe at O’Donnell, mentioning that he wouldn’t believe it if she were made editor-in-chief.

“Not Norah O’Donnell. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it,” he said.

In preparation for the interview, O’Donnell flew to Florida on Thursday. No release date has yet been reported.