President Donald Trump will sit down for a TV interview ahead of this weekend’s Super Bowl LIX on Fox.
The interview, to be conducted by Fox News anchor Bret Baier, will run during the 3 p.m. hour of the Fox pregame show, with additional portions to run on Baier’s evening program Special Report on Monday. Fox says the interview will be pre-taped at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in West Palm Beach.
The Super Bowl is by far the biggest TV event of the year, and the presidential interview has become something of a modern tradition, allowing the President to reach a wide swath of the country in one place. The pregame show doesn’t garner the 100 million-plus viewers that the game does, but it still lets the President speak to an audience of tens of millions.
That being said, President Biden skipped last year’s interview, when the game was hosted by CBS, and in 2023 the question of whether or not he would participate became a media story of its own. Fox hosted the game that year, and the White House tried to arrange an interview with hosts at the Fox Soul streaming product, rather than with Fox News.
Trump himself declined to do a Super Bowl interview in 2018, when NBC hosted the Big Game, though he participated in other years.
Baier, the anchor of Special Report who leads Fox’s political coverage, last interviewed Trump one-on-one in June 2023. He also interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris during last year’s election campaign, the only Fox host to do so.
Fox says Baier’s interview with Trump will “focus on the changes the Trump administration has enacted since the Inauguration and the first 100 days of his presidency.”
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