On Sunday night, Donald Trump did his first televised sit-down interview since the midterm elections, speaking to CBS’ Ross Douthat on 60 Minutes.
In the interview, according to The Daily Beast, Trump made a surprising vow to be more civil to his opponents- something we went back on almost immediately.
“Do you think you could work with the Democrats without insulting them, consistently?,” Douthat, the former New York Times columnist, asked the president.
“Yeah, I do. I could… I also called many of them ‘Dumocrats,'” the president replied, seeming to keep his civility pledge for a matter of a few seconds.
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“You did that just the other day. If it took six months of not insulting the Democrats to get a deal done, do you think you could do it?,” Douthat asked Trump.
Trump replied, “Very easily.”
Other news from the interview included Trump seeming to announce a pivot on immigration policy, admitting that, of his deportation policy, “I think it was too tough.”
“For getting people out, I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out,” Trump said. “But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.”
“Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there’s a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they’re good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel, or doing something, right? And in some cases, paying taxes,” Trump said.
He also pointed at potential personnel changes.
“I do, yeah. Little bit,” adding that “I love my Cabinet,” but “I’ll … be doing maybe a few changes.”
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