6 wild things Donald Trump said in first interview since US president return

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56% : More infoDonald Trump gave his first interview since returning as US President to Fox News on Wednesday.
47% : Youth vote claim debunkedWhen he was talking about TikTok, Trump suggested the app helped him "win" the youth vote.
47% : During his first term as President, Trump proposed that water be redirected from the north of California down to the central and southern parts of the state.
45% : He said: "Why would somebody say that open borders are good, when jails and mental institutions from other countries and gang members right off the streets of the toughest cities in the world are being brought to the United States of America and emptied out into our country?"Trump offered no further evidence for his claim - and none has been found to back it up.
42% : He also pulled out of the World Health Organisation and the Paris Climate Treaty.
42% : According to CNN exit poll data, Vice President Kamala Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24, 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29, and 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39.
40% : But after returning to the White House, Trump signed an executive order giving TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law banning the app if it is not sold.
38% : It comes after Trump pardoned 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
34% : When the subject came up, Trump suggested concerns about TikTok didn't matter because the app is used by young kids watching "crazy videos", saying simply: "I think TikTok's going to stay around."
31% : TikTok going to 'stay around'In a free-flowing interview, Trump addressed the issue of TikTok.
27% : Here is a quick look at the crazy things Trump said in this first interview since returning to office.
27% : He added that he would leave it up to Congress to decide whether to investigate Trump.
26% : Trump said: "I went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with.
26% : "I'd rather see the states take care of their own problems," Trump said.
25% : False claim about Capitol riot 'destroyed' infoAccording to CNN's Fact Check of the interview, Trump repeated his false claim that the House select committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol "deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected."
24% : Polling shows Trump did not win the youth vote by 36 points in 2024 - in fact it shows he did not win it at all.
16% : Elsewhere in the interview Trump defended pardoning 1,500 Capitol Hill rioters as he said they were "treated like the worst criminals in history."
12% : Trump said Biden took "bad advice" by not pardoning himself and hinted that he could be investigated himself.
5% : "Biden could face 'four years of hell'Trump suggested Biden should have pardoned himself - in a rambling attack on the former US President.

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