During what seemed an interminable campaign, a divided country found all kinds of ways to describe Donald Trump: visionary businessman, vulgar self-promoter, political neophyte.

But after Tuesday, for all Americans, there’s only one description that count

s: president-elect. Since the election, demonstrations against him have broken out in over a dozen cities across the country. And people on both sides are on edge.

What we discovered in Mr. Trump’s first television interview as president

-elect, was that some of his signature issues at the heart of his campaign were not meant to be taken literally, but as opening bids for negotiation.

Tonight, you will also hear from his family about whether they’ll play roles in a Trump

 presidency. But we begin with President-elect Trump, whom we interviewed Friday in his penthouse home in the Trump Tower. Lesley Stahl: Well, congratulations, Mr. Trump. Donald Trump: Thank you.

Lesley Stahl: You’re president

-elect. Donald Trump: Thank you. Lesley Stahl: How surprised were you? Donald Trump: Well, I really felt we were doing well. I was on a string of about 21 straight days of speeches, sometimes many a day and the last two days I really-- I really had a pretty wild time. I did six speeches and then I did seven and-- Lesley Stahl: But everyone thought you were going to lose. Donald Trump: I know, I did my final speech in Michigan at 1:00 in the morning and we had 31,000 people, many people outside of the arena. And I felt--

when I left, I said, “How are we gonna lose?” We set it up a day before. And we had all of these people. And it was literally at

1:00

in the morning and I said, “This doesn’t look like second place.” So we were really happy, I

mean, it was-- these are great people. Lesley Stahl: On election night, I heard you went completely silent. Was it a sort of realization of the enormity of this thing for you?

Donald Trump: I think so, it’s enormous. I’ve done a lotta big things, I’ve never done anything

like this. It is so big, it is so--

it’s so enormous, it’s so amazing.

 

 

 

Lesley Stahl: It kind of just took your breath away? Couldn’t talk?

 Donald Trump: A li-- a little bit, a little bit. And I think-- I realized that this is a whole different life for me now. Lesley Stahl: Hillary called you. Tell us about that phone call. Donald Trump: So Hillary called and it was a lovely call and it was a tough call for her, I mean, I can imagine. Tougher for her than it would have been for me. And for me, it would have been

very, very difficult. She couldn’t have been nicer. She just said, “Congratulations, Donald, well done.” And I said, “I want to thank 

 

you very much, you were a great competitor.” She is very

strong and very smart. Lesley Stahl: What about Bill Clinton? Did you talk to him? Donald Trump: He did, he called the next day. Lesley Stahl: Really? What did he say? Donald Trump: He actually called last night. Lesley Stahl: What did he say? Donald Trump: And he--

he couldn’t have been more gracious. He said it was an amazing run. One of the most amazing he’s ever seen.

 Lesley Stahl: He said that. Donald Trump: He was very, very-- really, very nice. Lesley Stahl: It was a pretty nasty campaign. Do you regret any of the things you said about her? Donald Trump: Well, it was a double-side nasty. Donald Trump: I mean they were tough and I was tough and--

do I regret? I mean, I’m sitting

here

with you now and we’re gonna do a great job for the country. We’re going to make America great again, I mean, that’s what

-- it--

it began with that and that’s where we are right now. There

are so many-- Lesley Stahl: So no-- no regrets about-- Donald Tru

mp: I can’t regret. No

-- I wish it were softer, I wish it were nicer, I wish maybe even it was more on policy, or whatever you want to say. But-- but I will say that-- it really-- it really

is something that I’m very proud of I mean it was a tremendous cam

 paign. Lesley Stahl: Can we talk about yesterday with President Obama?

 

 Donald Trump: Sure. Lesley Stahl: 90 minutes. You were scheduled for what? 15? Donald Trump: 15 max. [Barack Obama: We talked about foreign policy, we talked about domestic policy.] Donald Trump: This was just going to be a quick little chat and it lasted close to an hour and a half. And it could have gone on for four hours. I mean it was-- just-- in fact, it was almost hard  breaking it up because we had so many things to say. And he told me-- the good things and the  bad things, there are things that are tough right now-- Lesley Stahl: Like what?

Donald Trump: Well…

 Lesley Stahl: Give us some meat. Donald Trump:

Well, look I don’t want to divulge, but we talked about the Middle

 

East, that’s tough. It’s a tough situation. I wanted to get his full view and I got his, you know I got a good

 part of his view. Lesley Stahl: Uh-huh.

Donald Trump: And I like having that because I’m going to be inheriting that in a short period of

time. I found him to be terrific. I found him to be-- very smart and very nice. Great sense of humor, as much as you can have a sense of humor talking about tough subjects, but we were talking about some pretty tough subjects. Donald Trump:

 – 

and we were talking about some victories, also, some things that-- that he feels very good about. But-- Lesley Stahl: Like-- Donald Trump: Well, what I really wanted to focus on was-- the Middle East, North Korea, Obamacare is tough. You know, healthcare is a tough situation. Lesley Stahl: Oh, I bet he asked you not to undo it.

Donald Trump: Well, he didn’t ask me, no, he told me

-- you know, the merits and the difficulties. And we understand that. Lesley Stahl: You looked pretty sober sitting there in the Oval Office, did something wash over you or--