In promoting his new book about President Trump, author Bob Woodward has shared several interview tapes with the CBS show 60 Minutes, which is releasing excerpts of Scott Pelly’s interview set to air Sunday.
In one that is receiving lots of attention, Pelly said that Woodward and Trump’s taped calls for the book, Rage, took a “sharp turn” after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police.
It was in June, when Woodward asked Trump about the Black Lives Matter movement and their “white” privilege, which Trump slapped aside when he said, “No. You really drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you.”
In the CBS interview, Woodward gave his reaction to Trump’s comments.
“He was ridiculing me for reflecting what the whole movement, after George Floyd, is,” said Woodward.
The transcript from CBS is below:
(WOODWARD): And do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and put you in a cave, to a certain extent, as it put me, and I think lots of White, privileged people, in a cave and that we have to work our way out of it to understand the anger and the pain, particularly, black people feel in this country? Do you see?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. You, you really drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you? Just listen to you, wow. No, I don’t feel that at all.
(WOODWARD) He was ridiculing me for reflecting what the whole movement, after George Floyd, is.
