Thursday, May 21, 2026

“60 Minutes” Scores Highest Ratings Since 2021 with Trump-O’Donnell Interview, NFL Lead-In Bills-Chiefs Game A Big Factor

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Sunday night’s tussle between Norah O’Donnell and Donald Trump was a big success.

“60 Minutes” scored its highest numbers since 2021 with the Trump interview in which he lied, dodged, or hallucinated to every question.

Trump will crow that he “saved” the show, but the NFL lead in game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs insured the high numbers. The total was 13 million.

The Bills won their game, and O’Donnell bested Trump if only because she persevered in some kind of quest for the truth. If only she’d been tougher in getting answers and questioning Trump’s lies.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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