’60 Minutes’ Trump Interview Ratings Revealed: Was It a Hit or Miss?

For a man so focused on television ratings, Donald Trump‘s interview with Ross Douthat on Sunday’s (November 8) 60 Minutes was a ratings disappointment, drawing the second-smallest audience of any episode featuring the president since 2015.

According to The Wrap, citing Nielsen Big Data + Panel figures, Sunday’s episode drew 7.8 million total viewers and 918,000 viewers in the coveted Adults 25-54 demographic. This was down 44 percent from Trump’s November 2025 interview with Norah O’Donnell, which had a lead-in from the Kansas City Chiefs versus Buffalo Bills NFL game.

The episode was also down 26 percent from the previous week’s broadcast, which drew 10.5 million viewers, its best audience of the season and highest viewership since November 30, 2025.

However, the Trump interview has attracted over 195 million video views across 60 Minutes‘ various social platforms. In addition, Sunday’s episode was up 5 percent from the president’s April 2026 appearance, which drew 7.4 million viewers during the NFL offseason.

Sunday’s episode, which also featured Trevor Phillips’ report on the protests in France, was the No. 1 non-sports primetime program in viewers and adults 18 and up.

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Trump sat down with Douthat for his first official interview since the Democrats took control of the House and the Senate in last week’s midterm elections. Douthat grilled the president about the Republican losses, asking what went wrong.

While Trump argued the story would have been different if he’d been on the ballot, he acknowledged that voters didn’t like many of the Republican candidates. He also accepted that the Iran war and rising gasoline costs played a role in how people voted. Trump’s stance changed on Monday (November 9) when he took to Truth Social and implied the midterm voting was rigged.

Elsewhere in the interview, Douthat pressed the president on his increased wealth while in office. The journalist asked Trump about his dealings with the cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial, which “is also partially owned by investors connected to the government of the United Arab Emirates.”

The president dodged the question, saying he doesn’t know anything about it and that he leaves that side of the business to his son.