ON "60 MINUTES" SUNDAY: PRESIDENT TRUMP TELLS BOB WOODWARD ON AUDIO TAPE THERE IS INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN AMERICA THAT HAS AN IMPACT ON PEOPLES' LIVES

But Trump Dismisses Question on White Privilege: "You Really Drank the Kool-Aid"

The "60 Minutes" Excerpt Was Broadcast on "CBS This Morning"

President Trump tells Bob Woodward he believes there is institutional racism in America that has an impact on people's lives and that it is "everywhere" and "unfortunate." But when the veteran Washington Post reporter asks Donald Trump whether white privilege prevented him from fully understanding that impact and the anger it causes, the president mocks him for drinking "the Kool-Aid." The conversation is part of Woodward's second book about President Trump, titled Rage, and was reported from on-the-record interviews the author says he was permitted to record. Viewers can hear the president in his own voice, and Woodward will tell Scott Pelley what he learned about President Trump, on the next edition of 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Sept. 13 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

This excerpt from the 60 MINUTES interview was broadcast today on CBS THIS MORNING. The text is below, please credit 60 MINUTES.

WOODWARD'S INTERVIEWS TOOK A SHARP TURN ON MAY 25, AFTER GEORGE FLOYD WAS KILLED BY MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICERS. THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT REIGNITED.

SOT: "Black Lives Matter"

TRUMP: I got it.

WOODWARD: Do you think there is systematic or institutional racism in this country?

TRUMP: Well, I think there is everywhere, I think probably less here than most places, or less here than many places.

WOODWARD: Okay, but is it here, in a way that it has an impact on people's lives?

TRUMP: I think it is, and it's unfortunate, but I think it is.

WOODWARD ASKED MR. TRUMP IF A PRIVILEGED LIFE LEFT HIM OUT OF TOUCH.

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.

ENDS

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