The president sat down with CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell — his first appearance on the show since suing the network over what he called a 'deceptively edited' interview with Kamala Harris at the height of the campaign. 

O'Donnell repeatedly prodded Trump over his decision to pardon cryptocurrency billionaire Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance also known as CZ. 

The CBS anchor grilled the president about the appearance of impropriety as the pardon coincided with Binance's involvement in a $2 billion purchase of stablecoins from World Liberty Financial, a crypto platform run by Trump's sons Don Jr. and Eric.

'Norah, I can only tell you this. My sons are into it,' Trump replied. 'I'm glad they are, because it's probably a great industry, crypto. I think it's good. You know, they're running a business, they're not in government.'

O'Donnell responded, 'So not concerned about the appearance of corruption?'

Trump then gave the CBS anchor a stern warning which appeared neither in the 28-minute episode that aired on TV, nor an hour-long extended version uploaded to YouTube.

'I'd rather not have you ask the question,' Trump fired back. 'But I let you ask it. You just came to me and you said, "Can I ask another question?" And I said, yeah. This is the question ... I don't mind. Did I let you do it? I coulda walked away. I didn't have to answer this question. I'm proud to answer the question. You know why? We've taken crypto.'

When O'Donnell tried to interrupt, Trump shot back: 'Excuse me. We're No. 1 in crypto in the whole world. Other people wanna be. They're fighting like hell to be. But we're No. 1 in crypto because I'm the president. Biden wanted to also, at the very end, you know, he totally switched his thing.' 

Trump initially claimed he had no idea who Zhao was before launching into an angry tirade against O'Donnell. 

'Well, here's the thing, I know nothing about it because I'm too busy,' he told the anchor.

Trump's heated exchange with O'Donnell did not make the final cut of either video, but appeared in the full transcript released by CBS.