President Donald Trump reflected on his social comeback and the ship of problems before him in his second sit-down meeting since returning to the White House.
“It’s bigger than if it were more traditional, ” said Trump on Wednesday, his next morning back in business. “ Well, they say it ’s generally bigger. I don’t hear about that. But I may claim it showed us a couple of things. It showed us that the extreme Left, their ideas and plans are terrible. ”
Trump laid into President Joe Biden, claiming some global crises had n’t had happened if 2020 had turned out differently.
“We would n’t have inflation, we would n’t have had the Afghanistan disaster, we would n’t have Oct. 7 in Israel, where so many people were killed, and you would n’t had a Ukraine warfare going on, ” said Trump.
But he also looked forth, fielding inquiries on the future of TikTok, his mission in Congress, and a trip to North Carolina and California he may be making later this year.
Here are the best restaurants from Trump’s meeting with Hannity.
1. Trump downplays the risk of TikTok
One morning after claiming he may be sensitive to Elon Musk buying TikTok before a forced sales takes area, Trump downplayed the security risks posed by the Chinese-owned social media platform.
“We have so many items made in China. But why don’t they mention that? ” Trump said. “You’re dealing with a lot of young people, it is n’t that crucial for China to be spying on young persons, on younger children watching crazy movies? ”
“They make your phone, and they make your servers, and they make a lot of other things. Is n’t that a bigger danger? ” Trump asked.
On Monday, Trump immediately signed an executive order giving TikTok 75 days to either sell from ByteDance or chance shutting down in the United States.
But if TikTok has n’t divested itself by that date, the game could once again get dark. House Speaker Mike Johnson told NBC News’s Meet the Press that he would uphold the law banning the game.
Trump, for his piece, has floated the idea of giving a U. S. entity a 50 % stake in the company.
2. Trump slams Liberals over FEMA
The leader took goal at how the Federal Emergency Management Agency handled natural disasters in North Carolina, which faced a destructive storms, and California, already grappling with catastrophic fires.
“The Democrats don’t worry about North Carolina. What they’ve done with FEMA is so terrible, ” Trump bemoaned. “FEMA is a whole different dialogue because all it does is complicated anything. FEMA has certainly done their job for the last four years. ”
In comparison, Trump claimed that under his second management, he “had FEMA working really well. ”
“We had storms in Florida. We had Alabama tornadoes … but unless you have certain kinds of leadership, it ’s truly, it gets in the way, ” Trump said. “And FEMA is going to be a whole great conversation very quickly because I’d instead see the states take care of their personal problems”
Congress is currently in the process of deciding whether needs may be attached to any pleasure aid sent to California.
3. Trump bristles at Newsom over multiculturalism, fire
Trump spent a part of the meeting attacking Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA ), a longtime foe of his, over his handling of the wildfires in Southern California.
The leader is set to visit the Golden State on Friday after visiting North California, but he was coy about meeting with Newsom.
“ I don’t hear. I have n’t actually thought about it. Look, Gavin’s got one point he may do. He may release the water that comes from the north, ” said Trump. “There is large amounts of water, water and rock waters, that comes through with the frost, comes down as it melts. There’s but little fluids. They’re releasing it into the Pacific Ocean. ”
During the meeting, Trump even slammed Newsom’s handling of illegal immigration and sanctuary cities in California.
“California is a great instance of it. If you really polled the people, they don’t want shelter cities, but Gavin Newsom does and these radical left officials do, ” Trump said until suddenly attacking the government over the state’s water system.
“ Why is it that you don’t want millions of gallons of water a day pouring throughout California? ” Trump said.
4. Trump defends Jan. 6 pardons
Trump once again defended his controversial blanket pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including those convicted of violence against law enforcement, after excoriating the House select committee that investigated the Capitol attack.
“No. 1, they were in there for 3 1/2 years, a long time, ” Trump said of those convicted. “And in many solitary confinement, treated like nobody’s ever been … treated so badly, they were treated like the worst criminals in history. ”
Trump said the rioters were protesting the “rigged ” 2020 election, to which Hannity replied, “ But you should n’t be able to invade the Capitol. ”
The president also slammed Biden’s preemptive pardons of his family members, former White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and the Jan. 6 committee in the hours before leaving office.
“This guy went around giving everybody pardons. You know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he did n’t give himself a pardon. And if you look at it, it all had to do with him, ” Trump said.
5. Trump dances around whether to investigate Biden pardons
Trump left open the possibility of investigating Biden when Hannity asked about his pardons but did not give a definitive answer either way.
He instead claimed it would be deserved given the federal cases on his handling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“ I went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell, ” Trump said about the multiple indictments he faced. “ I spent millions of dollars in legal fees, and I won. But I did it the hard way. ”
The federal charges against Trump were dropped after he won the election in November.
“It’s really hard to say that they should n’t have to go through it also. It is very hard to say it, ” Trump said. However, he also noted that he did not prosecute his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, during his first term in office.
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When Hannity questioned if Congress should investigate Biden, Trump punted the decision to lawmakers.
“ I think we’ll let Congress decide, ” he responded.
