President Donald Trump speaks with Fox News' Sean Hannity. (Fox News)
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."
President Trump is pictured in front of the TikTok logo. (Getty Images)
Trump credited his campaign's decision to go on TikTok with his strong 2024 election performance with youth voters, though he told Hannity the short form video platform must be sold by its Chinese owners to continue to operate in the U.S.
"I think TikTok ought to be sold," Trump said. "People want to buy it."
On his first day in office Monday, Trump issued an executive order granting TikTok more time to operate and work toward compliance with a law forcing the platform's Beijing-based owner, ByteDance, to either divest the app to an American buyer or shut the platform down in the U.S.
He has stated that the U.S. should own half of TikTok and suggested that billionaire Elon Musk or Oracle founder Larry Ellison should purchase the app.
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In the interview, Trump seemed dismissive of Hannity's concerns that TikTok is a "spying app for the communist Chinese."
"But you can say that about everything made in China. Look, we have our telephones made in China for the most part. We have so many things made in China. So why don't they mention that, you know?" Trump said.
"You're dealing with a lot of young people," he added. "So they love it. Is it that important for China to be spying on young people and young kids watching crazy videos of things?"
Hannity replied that he does not want China spying on anybody.
"No, but they make your telephones, and they make your computers, and they make a lot of other things," Trump said. "Isn't that a bigger threat?"
During a discussion on Biden's preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House Jan. 6 select committee, Trump suggested the "sad thing" about it was that Biden did not pardon himself.
"I was given the option," Trump said, recalling the end of his first term, when political pundits speculated that Trump may pardon himself to avoid prosecution for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riots.
"They said, ‘sir, would you like to pardon everybody, including yourself?’ I said, I'm not going to pardon anybody. We didn't do anything wrong. And we had people that suffered," Trump said, noting that his former chief strategist Steve Bannon and former trade advisor Peter Navarro were jailed for contempt of Congress.
"[Biden] went around giving everybody pardons, and, you know, the funny thing — maybe the sad thing — is he didn't give himself a pardon. And, if you look at it, it all had to do with him," Trump told Hannity.
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Biden was asked in 2020 about reports that then-President Trump was considering preemptive pardons for members of his family and even himself, describing the possibility as concerning.
"Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice," Biden told CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
Four years later, he pardoned his sister, two brothers and their spouses. Biden said the array of pardons was in part because he feared "baseless" and "politically motivated investigations" into his family from the Trump administration.
"The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense," Biden said in a statement released on Inauguration Day.
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Trump declined to answer Hannity's question about whether Congress should investigate the Biden family.
"Look, he didn't give himself a pardon, and he didn't give some other people a pardon that needed it," said Trump.
Fox News Digital's Ashley Carnahan, Emma Colton and Breck Dumas contributed to this report.
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