Thread by @ChrisMegerian

Well, he did it — Trump posted the 60 Minutes interview

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1319298695683334144

"You're ok with some tough questions?" Lesley Stahl asks Trump before the interview gets rolling.

"You don't ask Biden tough questions," he responds.

"If we did half the testing, we'd do half the cases," Trump told "60 Minutes."

He just won't budge on this falsehood.

I'm about a quarter way through the interview, and the president is far more combative than Lesley Stahl.

The president suggests his real failure on the coronavirus is not the huge death toll, but his inability to convince the media that he's done a great job.

"We've done a good job. Not a good job, we've done a great job," the president says.

Stahl: "You used to have bigger rallies."

Trump: "No, these are much bigger than I ever had. You're so negative, you're so negative. These are the biggest rallies we've ever had. You just come in here with that negative attitude."

(Stahl is right.)

The president appears rigid with anger or irritation throughout much of this interview, sometimes demanding "next question" when he doesn't like the topic.

"I wish you would interview Joe Biden like you interview me," the president complains.

"You're like big tech, you're protecting him."

"We can't put on things we can't verify," Stahl says as the president lists baseless allegations about Joe Biden.

"So why don't you get back to your interview and let's go," Trump shoots back.

Stahl presses Trump on his "name calling" and rhetoric.

"Where are we sitting now?" Trump says.

"In the Roosevelt Room," Stahl responds.

"Of what?"

"Of the White House."

"That's right. How did I get here?"

Trump defends his aggressive rhetoric.

"If you don't fight back, you're not sitting here very long. You go back home. You go back home to mommy."

Trump on Gov. Whitmer: "I haven't gone after her."

Also Trump on Gov. Whitmer: "I think it's disgraceful what she's done" on locking down Michigan.

Trump to Stahl: "I didn't say 'lock up the governor.'"

Trump at a Michigan rally on Saturday: “Lock ’em all up."

The interview is wrapping up, and Trump is upset. "Your first statement was, 'Are you ready for tough questions?' That's no way to talk."

A producer asks about filming the next segment.

"I think we have enough," Trump says. And that's all.