President Trump tore into Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown, justified his order to restart nuclear weapons testing in the US and defended his administration\u2019s ICE raids in a sometimes-intense \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview Sunday \u2013 his first with CBS News since suing the network\u2019s parent company.<\/p>\n
Sparks flew early as anchor Norah O\u2019Donnell, sitting with Trump at his gilded Florida Mar-a-Lago estate, came out of the gates with a question about the president\u2019s handling of the shutdown, the second-longest in US history at 33 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have helped these government shutdowns in the past,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said, prompting a testy back-and-forth in which the two tried to talk over one another.<\/p>\n
President Trump touched on NYC\u2019s mayoral race and other topics during his \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview on Sunday night. CBS<\/p>\n
Trump,\u00a0at one point,\u00a0shot back: \u201cI\u2019m not gonna do it by being extorted by the Democrats who have lost their way. There\u2019s something wrong with these people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then pinned the blame on a Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whom he called a \u201cbasket case.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s gonna be defeated in the next election by a vast number of people. And he has nothing to lose. He\u2019s become a kamikaze pilot,\u201d Trump railed.<\/p>\n
Trump continued to jab at NYC mayoral frontrunner and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. Aristide Economopoulos<\/p>\n
Last week, Schumer\u00a0proposed approving a food stamps-only bill<\/a>\u00a0to compensate for the SNAP benefits hanging in the balance instead of voting to reopen the government in full.\u00a0<\/p>\n Schumer and his fellow Senate Democrats have voted over a dozen times to keep the government shut down from Oct. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump\u00a0later on in the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview\u00a0doubled down on his intention to\u00a0restart testing the US\u2019 nuclear weaponry<\/a>, which he boasted could \u201cblow up the world 150 times.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cWhy do we need to test our nuclear weapons?\u201d O\u2019Donnell snapped.<\/p>\n To which Trump replied: \u201cWe\u2019re the only country that doesn\u2019t test, and I don\u2019t wanna be the only country that doesn\u2019t test.\u201d<\/p>\n The president then cited Russia and China \u2013 both of which he said are actively testing their nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n