The president referred to Greene as a “low IQ traitor” and demands a “complete and total APOLOGY” from Paramount.

Trump rips new Paramount leadership after 60 Minutes airs Marjorie Taylor Greene interview

The president referred to Greene as a "low IQ traitor" and demands a "complete and total APOLOGY" from Paramount.

By Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman is a news writer for with previous work in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.

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December 8, 2025 10:31 p.m. ET

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Add to the ever-expanding list of Donald Trump's enemies: Lesley Stahl, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paramount.

The president spent the early hours of Monday morning rage-posting about a wide range of subjects, from tariffs to AI to the esteemed primetime news program *60 Minutes *— again. On Sunday, journalist Lesley Stahl sat down with right-wing firebrand and recent congressional defector Marjorie Taylor Greene for a *60 Minutes *interview that has already racked up nearly 1 million views on YouTube. That's a million too many for Trump, who responded to the 13-minute conversation with threats and recriminations.

After several swipes at Greene ("she sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple!") and Stahl ("she still owes me an apology"), Trump revealed that his "real problem with the show, however, wasn't the low IQ traitor, it was that the new ownership of *60 Minutes*, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air."

The legacy Hollywood production company, which has since expanded into a multinational conglomerate of ventures, completed a controversial merger with millionaire Trump backer David Ellison's Skydance Media in August. The month before, Paramount buckled to Trump in a $16 million suit over a 2024 *60 Minutes *interview with Kamala Harris, which the President alleged was edited to swing the election in her favor.

Since the merger, the corporation has reformed itself in a Trump-friendly fashion. Which makes Sunday's interview with one of his newest and most prominent critics perfect rage bait.

"THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME!" Trump continued in his post. Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE! Oh well, far worse things can happen. P.S. I hereby demand a complete and total APOLOGY, though far too late to be meaningful, from Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes for her incorrect and Libelous statements about Hunter’s Laptop!!!"

* *has reached out to representatives for Greene, *60 Minutes*, and Paramount for comment.

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Greene was once among Trump's most ardent advocates. But a dramatic rift opened up between them over the latter's reluctance to endorse the release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In her *60 Minutes *interview, Greene pointed out the irony in the fact of Trump calling her a "traitor" the same week he hosted both former Al Qaeda-affiliated leader and current Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been implicated in the murder of *Washington Post *journalist Jamal Khashoggi, at the White House.

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaking in Columbus, Ga., in 2023 with Donald Trump.

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But Trump thinks Greene has turned "BAD" for another reason: "She was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted!)"

Trump continued to call Greene a "very dumb person" who "made many really stupid statements" and referred to Stahl as a "washed up, Trump hating, *60 Minutes* 'correspondent.'"****

This continues Trump's week of attacks on female journalists, as Sunday saw the arrival of yet another Truth Social post that referred to CNN's Kaitlan Collins as "stupid and nasty."

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