Where in the ABC transcript of David Muir's interview with President Trump can I find each question and answer?
Executive summary
The complete question-and-answer text of David Muir’s one-on-one interviews with President Donald Trump is available across multiple published transcripts; the clearest, widely cited ABC transcript formats are hosted by ABC itself (republished in government and archival sites) and by presidential-archive services, but versions differ in line breaks and editorial notes [1] [2]. Multiple news outlets and archives republished the same interview text—Fortune, Roll Call/Factba.se and other outlets—so locating each question and answer means consulting one of those verbatim transcripts and reading question lines labeled "DAVID MUIR" followed by "THE PRESIDENT" or "" responses [3] [4] [2].
1. Where to find the ABC/official transcript (single source to use first)
The ABC-produced transcript is accessible in a government-hosted PDF that reproduces the interview text with Muir’s questions clearly marked and Trump’s replies following, making it a direct way to locate each individual question-and-answer pair [1].
2. Alternative full-text transcripts and archival copies
If the ABC PDF link is unavailable, the American Presidency Project at UCSB hosts an archived, line-by-line transcript of the Muir–Trump interview that likewise separates interviewer prompts from presidential responses and is indexed for searching specific questions such as those about Obamacare, the border wall, and torture [2].
3. Commercial and media republications (useful cross-checks)
Major outlets republished the interview text in slightly different editorial formats: Fortune’s piece reproduces question-and-answer excerpts (including the Obamacare exchange) and is useful for quickly finding high-profile lines; Roll Call/Factba.se provides a searchable, segmented transcript and statistics about speaker time that help confirm which questions Muir asked and where Trump answered [3] [4].
4. Known variations and transcription mismatches to watch for
Independent sites and partisan archives have published versions that sometimes do not match the broadcast verbatim; at least one conservative blog noted the transcript it posted “doesn’t match the interview as broadcast,” so readers should prefer ABC’s own transcript or university archives for authoritative Q&A sequencing [5].
5. How the Q&A is structured in these transcripts (what to look for)
Across the ABC PDF and the UCSB archive, each interviewer line is labeled "DAVID MUIR" and followed immediately by the president’s labeled response ("THE PRESIDENT" or ""), so locating any single question and its answer requires searching for the interviewer label and reading the subsequent block of text; these transcripts include exchanges on the wall funding question and Obamacare phrasing explicitly in that Q&A style [1] [2] [3].
6. Editorial context and why multiple versions exist
ABC and other outlets prepared transcripts for distribution; secondary outlets and aggregators republished them for audiences, and summaries or TV recaps (and reaction pieces) sometimes excerpted lines—those recaps (for example, TV reaction stories) are not full transcripts and should not be used to reconstruct the complete Q&A sequence [6] [7].
7. Practical steps to extract every question and answer
To compile each Q&A precisely, open the ABC transcript PDF first [1], use the browser or PDF search for "DAVID MUIR" to jump to every interviewer prompt, then copy the immediately following labeled presidential reply; if the PDF is inaccessible, repeat the same process on the UCSB American Presidency Project page or the Roll Call/Factba.se transcript, and cross-check lines like the Obamacare exchange or the "wall" question that appear identically across sources [2] [4] [3].