--- title: This Is the Oprah 60 Minutes Segment That Drew Trump's Ire description: President Donald Trump tweeted calling Oprah "insecure," after a "60 Minutes" segment where Oprah moderates panel of voters from Michigan. canonical: https://time.com/5165601/trump-oprah-60-minutes-politics/ author: Sarah Gray article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-19T21:14:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:53:37.127Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Blasted Uplifting Oprah Story of Voters Crossing Political Divide og:description: Voters came to the 60 Minutes special politically divided – but found friendships og:url: https://time.com/5165601/trump-oprah-60-minutes-politics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d5fb904d01c4a0a/6988fada97cdff76fc6b4320/gettyimages-915020294.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: U.S. President Donald Trump Hosts Law Enforcement Round Table On MS-13 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Blasted Uplifting Oprah Story of Voters Crossing Political Divide twitter:description: Voters came to the 60 Minutes special politically divided – but found friendships twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d5fb904d01c4a0a/6988fada97cdff76fc6b4320/gettyimages-915020294.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Oprah's 60 Minutes Segment That President Trump Blasted Was Uplifting Story of Voters Crossing Political Divide > Sponsored content. 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I know her very well."_ by [Sarah Gray](https://time.com/author/sarah-gray/) ## Sarah Gray Feb 19, 2018 9:14 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a law enforcement round table on MS-13 at the White House on February 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a law enforcement round table on MS-13 at the White House on February 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. Pool—Getty Images by [Sarah Gray](https://time.com/author/sarah-gray/) ## Sarah Gray Feb 19, 2018 9:14 PM UTC President Donald Trump lashed out at Oprah over [Twitter on Sunday night](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/965442990134251520), calling the media mogul “insecure,” and saying he hopes she runs in 2020 “so she can be exposed and defeated.” Trump was responding to a _60 Minutes_ segment that featured 14 voters from [Michigan (a state Trump narrowly won)](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oprah-follows-up-with-the-partisan-voters-in-michigan/) — seven who support the president, and seven who don’t — who sat down to talk politics – and managed to find friendship. Oprah, a _60 Minutes_ contributor, was the moderator. “Just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey, who at one point I knew very well, interview a panel of people on 60 Minutes,” Trump tweeted. “The questions were biased and slanted, the facts incorrect. Hope Oprah runs so she can be exposed and defeated just like all of the others!” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/965442990134251520) The panel first appeared on the show in fall of 2017, but CBS’s _60 Minutes_ decided to bring the voters back on when producers discovered that, despite a hard partisan divide, the group remained in touch via a private Facebook group. The _60 Minutes_ roundtable fostered a friendship among the group and participants gathered several times for group activities and learn about each other. In the second _60 Minutes_ segment, which aired Sunday, the group discussed the tax bill, Trump’s [“shithole” countries](http://time.com/5100058/donald-trump-shithole-countries/) comment, the #MeToo movement and whether they would still vote for the president. “When we first met, there were some of you who had said, you know, you’d never been in conversations, certainly engagement, with members of the opposite side, political side,” Oprah said to begin the conversation. “So has that changed for you now?” While the group mostly remained steadfast in their political beliefs, each voter seemed to agree that they now saw people on the other side of the political spectrum as human – and were able to empathize. “Because now I’m looking at them as people, not as you’re Trump or not Trump,” one woman named Jennifer said. “This has been an incredible experience and an education for me.” In terms of whether or not Oprah will run for president in 2020—after her rousing Golden Globes speech sparked rumors—she explained to Ann Silvio that it was “not in my DNA.” ## Transcript [00:00] Yeah, I'll veto. Oprah would be a lot of fun. I know her [00:03] ver well. You know, I did one of her last shows. She [00:05] had Donald Trump, this was before politics, the last [00:08] week. And she had Donald Trump and my family, it [00:10] was very nice. No, I like Oprah. I don't think she's [00:13] gonna run. [ CROSSTALK ] I don't think she's gonna [00:17] run. 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