President Trump's 60 Minutes interview tantamount to one of his rallies

Variety

Lesley Stahl's sitdown that aired Sunday "allowed him to bulldoze his chief enemy, the media, while airing his own points at ceaseless length," says Daniel D'Addario. "The lesson the media has evidently not learned yet is not to be sitting right there when he does it." The 60 Minutes Trump interview was a big get for a president who usually avoids mainstream media while giving interviews to Fox News. But Stahl tried to cover so many aspects of his presidency that she didn't have time for many follow-ups. "And when follow-up questions did happen, they seemed to fall into the interview’s second trap: Trying to crack the code of Donald Trump, human being," says D'Addario. He adds: "By pushing through questions and by capitalizing on an interview approach seeking to synthesize his entire presidency into two segments of television, Trump effectively converted 60 Minutes into a short rally."