“NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas is set to sit down with Donald Trump for a wide-ranging interview at the White House, nearly 10 years after the president blasted him as a “sleaze.”
Llamas confirmed the interview during Tuesday’s broadcast, sharing a portion of his one-on-one with Trump will air Wednesday, with an extended version set to stream on “Top Story With Tom Llamas” on NBC News NOW at 7 p.m. ET.
Per NBC News, a separate segment of the interview will air exclusively during NBC’s “Super Bowl LX Pregame Show” ahead of Sunday’s big game. NBC News also noted that a transcript of the extended interview will be available Wednesday on NBCNews.com, with the complete transcript, including the Super Bowl portion, dropping after the pregame show’s airing.
This interview marks Llamas’ first sit down with President Trump since he stepped into the role of anchor and managing editor for “NBC Nightly News” back in June. It is also his first one-on-one interview with the president during the latter’s second term.
Additionally, the exclusive one-on-one comes almost 10 years after Trump infamously slammed Llamas “a sleaze” in June 2016 after the then ABC News journalist grilled the presumptive Republican nominee about the money he pledged to donate to veterans.
“What I don’t want is, when I raise millions of dollars, have people say – like this sleazy guy right over here from ABC; he’s a sleaze in my book,” Trump said during a news conference at the time.
“Why am I a sleaze?” Llamas hit back, to which Trump responded: “You’re a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well.”
Llamas later took to Twitter and wrote, “Trump just called me a ‘sleaze.’ Should be an interesting week.”
Watch the exchange from 2016 above.
“NBC Nightly News” airs weeknights at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
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