President Donald Trump sat down for an exclusive interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday, his first since returning to the White House.
Trump has routinely answered questions from reporters during his first week in office, including from Hannity.
In front of a primetime audience, Trump reflected on his return to the White House four years after his loss to former President Joe Biden, threatened a reckoning with FEMA, shared his view on TikTok’s future and discussed Biden’s preemptive pardons for officials and family members.
Here are the standout moments.
1. Trump reflects on return to White House
Trump looked back on his historic return to the White House in his interview with Hannity, saying his political comeback proves the policies and philosophies of the ‘radical left’ throughout the past four years are ‘horrible’ and ‘don’t work.’
The 47th president lamented the Biden administration’s policies, once again targeting inflation, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the onset of the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.
‘With all that being said, I think it’s bigger. It’s bigger than if it were more traditional,’ he said on ‘Hannity,’ referring to his two nonconsecutive terms. ‘I think we got there just in the nick of time.’
2. Hannity reveals what he told Trump after 2020 election loss
Hannity revealed he told Trump after the 2020 election that a return to the White House four years after the Biden administration would be ‘bigger’ than a consecutive win, comparing it to Winston Churchill’s return as prime minister following World War II.
‘Maybe I shouldn’t disclose this, but I will, and it was after the 2020 election, and you asked me a question. And we’ve known each other for 30 years, so we have a friendship, and we have a professional relationship,’ Hannity said in his exclusive interview with Trump on Wednesday.
‘And the question you asked me, ‘maybe in the end, it will be better that if I came back in four years.’ And we talked about history. After World War II, Winston Churchill was thrown out, but they brought him back. Grover Cleveland, the only other American president that did not serve consecutive terms,’ he continued.
Churchill served as prime minister twice, from 1940-1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Trump is the second U.S. president to serve two, non-consecutive terms behind President Grover Cleveland, the nation’s 22nd and 24th president.
Hannity explained that he believed ‘it would be bigger if you came back.’ Trump agreed that it is already shaping up that way after three days in office.
‘It’s turning out to be bigger. And I think one thing is happening is people are learning that they can’t govern and that their policies are terrible. I mean, they don’t want to see a woman get pummeled by a man in a boxing ring?’ he said.
