5 takeaways from Trump's interview with Sean Hannity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : ""I love Oklahoma," Trump continued.
65% : President Trump sat down Wednesday with Fox News host and ally Sean Hannity for his first one-on-one interview since returning to the White House for his second term.
62% : While the order was never enacted after legal challenges, Trump has in the past year become an outspoken fan of TikTok, citing his popularity on the app during his campaign.
56% : Trump has taken questions from reporters on each of his first three days in office, including the Hannity interview.
56% : Trump on Monday night in one of his first official acts as president granted roughly 1,500 "full, complete and unconditional pardons" for rioters charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
55% : Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing departments to "route more water" from northern California to southern California.
51% : But unless you have certain types of leadership, it's really, it gets in the way," Trump said.
49% : Trump also revealed to Hannity that he was given the option on his way out of the White House in his first term to pardon himself, but declined.
48% : Trump signed an executive order in 2020, during his first term, effectively banning TikTok over data privacy concerns because of its parent company, ByteDance.
47% : Trump said.
39% : We didn't do anything wrong,'" Trump said.
38% : "You can say that about everything made in China," Trump said when Hannity noted concerns that the app could be used by Beijing to spy on its users.
37% : Trump previews North Carolina, California tripsThe president will make his first domestic trip away from Washington on Friday when he travels to North Carolina and California to tour disaster recovery efforts.
35% : But it's unclear whether Trump will meet with Democratic state leaders on the ground.
31% : Trump told Hannity that he was given the option on his way out of the White House in 2021 to pardon himself, but declined because he believed he had done nothing wrong despite public efforts to overturn his election loss.
30% : "This guy went around giving everybody pardons," Trump said.
26% : Trump bashes FEMA, touts disaster recovery be left to statesThe president was sharply critical of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), suggesting at one point states should handle their own response to natural disasters but still have the federal government providing money.
25% : Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him," Trump said.
24% : "Trump shrugs off TikTok privacy concernsTrump brushed away national security concerns about the TikTok app, which were at the center of a bipartisan law to ban the platform if its China-based owner did not divest its ownership stake.
24% : Treated like the worst criminals in history," Trump said of his decision to pardon roughly 1,500 people.
18% : Trump then went on to suggest it was a mistake former President Biden didn't take advantage of that power himself in his final hours, which culminated at noon on Monday.
15% : They get built up by a couple of fake guys who are on CNN all the time," Trump said.
13% : Trump calls Jan. 6 assaults on polices 'minor incidents'For the second day in a row, Trump was asked about his decision to pardon defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol who committed violence against police.
11% : "Trump later said Biden "got very bad advice.
11% : "Trump repeatedly attacked the Biden administration and FEMA in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which devastated parts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
8% : Trump told Hannity he would defer to Congress as to whether lawmakers should investigate Biden and his decision to preemptively pardon family members and Trump critics like retired Gen. Mark Milley, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and members of the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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