Trump's long 60 Minutes cut moves past the midterms to UFOs and pardons

Ross Douthat's 51-minute conversation also covers AI, Ukraine and Trump's one-line legacy, and its comment section is far busier than the program usually sees.

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Extended Interview: President Trump on 60 Minutes

Ross Douthat's full conversation with President Donald Trump runs past the 50-minute mark. The election post-mortem fills the first stretch, but the second half of "Extended Interview: President Trump on 60 Minutes" covers far more ground.

The opening 20 minutes cover the midterms, gas prices, the Iran war and immigration, where Trump says of his deportation policy, "I think it was too tough." Then Douthat turns to artificial superintelligence. Asked why the United States should press ahead despite the safety risks, Trump answers, "Because China's going to have it." Douthat also asks whether any cabinet members will be fired, naming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Trump responds by praising military operations in Venezuela and Iran.

Around the 37-minute mark the subject is UFOs. Douthat asks about government disclosures of UFO and UAP footage, and Trump repeats what he says Air Force pilots have told him. The program has covered this subject before: its 2021 report in which Navy pilots described their own encounters is still one of the most watched videos on the channel.

On Ukraine, Trump describes his meetings with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy and says he expects the war to end. Asked whether he intends to pardon people connected to his administration and those convicted over January 6, he replies, "Yes, I do." His legacy, in one line: "That I made America great again."

The extended cut drew roughly 3.7 million views in its first day, and a shorter edit of the same interview passed two million. The program's comment sections are usually quiet, but this one filled with thousands of comments. One of the most liked thanks the program for leaving comments open, and many others are about Douthat himself, the conservative columnist now reporting for 60 Minutes, and how he kept the president on topic.

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The numbers

The extended interview's first day dwarfs the usual start for the program's longer videos, and the whole channel had one of its busiest days.

the video's first day

usual first day here

36,210

this video

3,692,338

subscribers

4,250,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,460,719,639

views per day

10,292,583

typical day: 945,384

the video

views

4,465,388

likes

43,930

comments

20,731

days online

1

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As of November 10, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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