In the fall of 2024, the CBS News program, 60 Minutes, interviewed Democratic presidential candidate Vice-President Kamala Harris. Shortly after the interview aired, Donald Trump complained that 60 Minutes had edited the interview in a manner that was egregiously unfair to Trump and amounted to defamation. Never mind that the editing was proper and routine and done solely for time and clarity.

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Despite having no rational argument, Trump sued the network, and in July of 2025 Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement that was nothing more than submitting to a mob boss style extortion from Trump who was threatening to obstruct Paramount’s hopes of completing a merger with another big media firm.

SEE THIS: Paramount Caves to Trump’s Extortion, Disgraces CBS, Pays a $16M Bribe to Settle a Bogus Lawsuit

On Monday morning Trump posted a comment on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, that proves that there is no satisfying a bully. Tucked away in his hallmark diarhetorical™ rant against a new 60 Minutes interview of MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump lashed out at CBS and Paramount, who he whined should never “allow a show like this to air.” As if he is the programming authority who gets to make those decisions for every network.

In this case, what triggered Trump was likely Greene’s characterization of him as a subject of ridicule. Which is something you would think he would be used to by now…

Stahl: Behind the scenes do they [Republicans] talk differently?
Greene: Yes. It would shock people. I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him – making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him – to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started kissing his ass and put on a MAGA hat for the first time.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans in Congress make fun of Trump behind his back.

— Blue Georgia (@bluegeorgia.bsky.social) 2025-12-07T22:28:05.143Z

Trump’s online acrimony began with some of his typically misogynistic insults aimed at both Greene and CBS journalist Leslie Stahl, saying that, “The only reason Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States.” Then he babbled that Stahl is a “washed up, Trump hating, 60 Minutes ‘correspondent.'”

Only after unleashing that hateful invective did Trump get down to what he says he was really upset about. Bearing in mind that Paramount is once again hoping to complete another big merger, this time to acquire Warner Bros/Discovery.

“My 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. THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE! […] I hereby demand a complete and total APOLOGY.”

This is incontrovertible evidence of how pointless it is to capitulate to Trump. He is insatiable. And the only thing that he learns from capitulation is that you are weak and ripe for endless exploitation. Whether you are a media enterprise, or a university, or a law firm, or a political flunky, you are forever his property and must do his bidding – or else!

Settling with Trump will never be sufficient to pacify him. It will only make him want more. He will demand total control over everything you do or say in perpetuity. And should you fail to obey, you will be subject once again to his unbridled wrath. Why anyone is still afraid of that is a mystery, and worse, it’s a mark of shame on them for their cowardice.

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