President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that Americans have nothing to fear from his incoming administration.

“I would tell them don’t be afraid, absolutely,” Trump told CBS’ “60 Minutes” when asked about the thousands of protesters from coast to coast who have taken to the streets since he became president-elect.

The wide-ranging interview, taped Friday in his Trump Tower penthouse, marked Trump’s first televised sit-down since his surprise victory over Hillary Clinton.

Topics ranged from the social divisions exposed by their bitter race to Trump’s willingness to walk back some of his more incendiary campaign promises and his shock at winning the White House.

Trump admitted that while his family was high-fiving over the Election Day returns, he was left nearly speechless by his poll-defying win.

“I realized that this is a whole different life for me now,” the billionaire builder and reality TV star said.

“I’ve done a lot of big things, I’ve never done anything like this. It is — it is so big, it is so — it’s so enormous, it’s so amazing.”

Trump said he was surprised to hear about reports that his supporters had harassed blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and gays, was “very surprised to hear that … because I’m trying to bring this country together.”

“I am so saddened to hear that,” he said.

“And I say, ‘Stop it.’ If it — if it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: ‘Stop it.’”

Pressed about how “African-Americans think there’s a target on their back” and “Muslims are terrified,” Trump said: “I think it’s horrible if that’s happening.”



‘I realized that this is a whole different life for me now.’

But he added: “I think it’s built up by the press because, frankly, they’ll take every single little incident that they can find in this country, which could’ve been there before.”

He also expressed disappointment that the LGBTQ community was expressing fears over his election.

“And yet I mentioned them at the Republican National Convention,” he said.

“Everybody said, ‘That was so great.’ I have been — you know, I’ve been — a supporter.”

On one of his signature campaign issues — his repeated promise to build a “big, beautiful wall” along the southern border with Mexico — Trump said some parts might actually be a fence.

“But certain areas, a wall is more appropriate. I’m very good at this, it’s called construction,” he said.

And despite his vow to “drain the swamp” in Washington, Trump said that while he wants to get rid of “lobbyists and special interests,” his transition team is stacked with them because “that’s the only people you have down there.”

“I’m saying that they know the system right now, but we’re going to phase that out,” he said.

Trump reiterated his plan to impose term limits on members of Congress and prevent them from later becoming lobbyists, and said one of his “very important” first steps — and a priority to the GOP-led Congress — would be to quickly appoint a Supreme Court justice to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Trump said all his judges “will be pro-life” and “very pro-Second Amendment.” When pressed on the possible reversal of Roe v. Wade, he said the issue “would go back to the states” and that women seeking abortions may “have to go to another state.”

Asked if that was OK, he said: “Well, we’ll see what happens. It’s got a long way to go, just so you understand. That has a long, long way to go.”

But in a break with social conservatives, Trump also said that gay marriage “was settled in the Supreme Court” and should stand as the law of the land.

“It’s done,” Trump said. “These cases have gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And I’m fine with that.”

Trump, who’s famed as a jet-setter with his lavish, gold-trimmed penthouse and sprawling Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., said he wasn’t planning on much leisure time while in office.

“We’re lowering taxes, we’re taking care of health care. I mean, there’s just so much to be done. So I don’t think we’ll be very big on vacations, no.”

He also repeated his pledge to forgo the $400,000 annual presidential pay in favor of a measly $1.

“I’m not going to take the salary. I’m not taking it,” Trump said.

In a reversal of campaign-trail criticism, Trump heaped praise on the quality of US military leadership, saying: “We have some great generals. We have great generals.”

But when pressed about his previous claims that he knew more than the generals about ISIS, he said: “I’ll be honest with you, I probably do because look at the job they’ve done.”

He refused to divulge any details of his plans to destroy ISIS, saying, “I don’t want to tell them anything. I don’t want to tell anybody anything.”

Trump also insisted that he’d prefer to get rid of the Electoral College system, even though it will make him the 45th commander-in-chief despite losing the popular vote to Clinton.

“I’m not going to change my mind just because I won,” Trump said. “But I would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes and you win.”

As for the man Clinton believes cost her the election, Trump wouldn’t say if he’ll seek the resignation of FBI Director James Comey, who revived the probe of her email scandal 11 days ahead of the election, only to clear her again three days before polls opened.

“He may have had very good reasons for doing what he did,” Trump said. “This is a tough time for him. And I would like to talk to him before I’d answer a question like that.”