President Donald Trump: We will bring our country back

You stated that you will release the files, all of the files, as it relates to the JFK assassination. The moment you walked back in this office, this desk, this room, your carpet, how'd you feel? Well, it was a lot of work. Do you believe that moment, people say to me, they see a change in you. Do you believe you changed? Is this, for example, increased your faith in God? Yes. All these people, the Biden family members, Joe Biden ran and said he would never do preemptive pardons. It was an issue that came up when you were leaving your first time. No, he thought, he heard that I was going to do it. I didn't want to do it. I was given the option. And welcome to Hannity, and buckle up for a very special show. After four long years, President Donald Trump is back where he belongs. He is in the Oval Office. Earlier, the President, he did welcome us into the White House for an exclusive first interview in front of the Resolute Desk. Mr. President. Thank you. Welcome back. Thank you very much. Let's talk about the moment you walked back in this office, this desk, this room, your carpet. How'd you feel? Well, it was a lot of work. And as you know, I felt that we shouldn't have had to necessarily be here. Could have been done. A lot of work could have been, it would have been over. We wouldn't have inflation. We wouldn't have had the Afghanistan disaster. Wouldn't have October 7th with Israel if so many people were killed. And you wouldn't have a Ukraine war going on. But with all that being said, I think it's bigger. It's bigger than if it were more traditional. Probably the second time in history somebody didn't have consecutive terms. Well, they say it's historically bigger. I don't know about that. But I can say it showed us a couple of things. It showed us that the radical left, their philosophies and policies are horrible. They don't work. You look at crime, you look at what's gone on at the border, you look at what's going to happen to crime. I mean, the crime that's going to happen. But I think we got there just in the nick of time. But we still have you covered better than anybody. We have terrorists in our country by the thousands. We have murderers in our country by the tens of thousands. We have numbers that came out, 11,000 people that murdered are now free and walking around in our country. And of them, I think 48 percent, they say, killed more than one person. And they're walking around. They came out of jails from other countries. And, you know, people, they've emptied their jails. If I were the president or prime minister or something of another country, I'd empty my jails right into America, into the United States. Why not? And many of them did it. If you look at Venezuela, their crime rate is down now 78 percent. Because they took their street gangs and they moved them into the United States. And you're seeing that in Colorado and Los Angeles and other places. And we're going to take care of it. So did Biden really say to you when you came up to the front of the White House, welcome home? No. Did somebody say that? I read it somewhere. I don't know. Maybe he did. I really don't know. So you left him a letter. It was funny with Peter Doocy. And Peter said, oh, Mr. President, did Joe Biden leave you a letter? He did leave you a letter. He did. And you had left him one. But you've never disclosed either one of them. Well, a lot of people. That would be a great time. You know, it was interesting. A lot of people thought it was sort of like a setup with Peter Doocy and myself. And I have a lot of respect for Peter. But he just asked me a question about the letter. And then I remember that, you know, like a custom, you leave it right in the drawer of that beautiful desk right alongside of us. So I opened it up and I actually gave the letter to Peter. And he got to read it? I guess. I don't know. You don't know if he read it? I just sent it to him a little while ago. All right. Before we get into this, so much substance. You are inheriting a lot of problems. A lot of things that actually scare me. And I want to get to all that. And I will get to all of that. They're all solvable problems. I agree. They're all solvable. Not easy. With time, effort, money, unfortunately. But they're all solvable problems. We can get our country back. But if we didn't win this race, I really believe our country would have been lost forever. Were there moments, I mean, when you think of what they threw at you. And I know you signed this declaration about no more weaponization. And we know that the preemptive pardons came up on Joe's way out. But you were facing a civil trial. A criminal trial. Conviction. Sentencing. Jack Smith. D.C. Florida. Fonny Willis. I mean, you fought through all of that to get back right here in this office. What people don't know is over there is a little red button you push. You scare people. People think it's the nuclear button. But it's really, you know. Something else. You use it for a different purpose. But the question I have was, at any point, did you doubt you would be back here? So, it's a great question. It's something I don't think about. I never really thought about it. I don't think about, gee, will I be back. I just do it. I get it done. I get things done. I'm good at getting things done. And I set my mind to it. As you know, we had a great election in 2016. I had a much better election in 2020. And if I didn't have that election, I wouldn't have run. If I thought that I didn't get the number of votes, and it was reported that I got almost 75 million votes. And that was their numbers. That wasn't the numbers. That was their numbers. That was more than anybody has gotten in history. Any sitting president had ever gotten. And you lost. Had I gotten like 50 million, 40 million, or 60 million, I would never have run. But that was like a poll. But I had a different attitude. Too big to rig. Poll came out just in the last 24 hours by Insider Advantage. That's Matt Towery. He nailed 2016, 2020, and 2024. Great pollster, as you know. And he gave you a 56% approval rating. He also said of Congress, and I had a town hall with members of Congress last night, that 70% of respondents want Congress to unite behind your agenda. I watched that show. It was a great show. And you had some great people in the background. I know every one of them. And they're really patriots. I just saw the love. You know, as the speaker, who is doing a terrific job, the speaker is answering questions. And I saw the acknowledgement and the love they had. And those are tough people behind him. These are not easy people. There are others that are tougher. Well, I don't know. This is a tough group if they want to be. They're nobody much tougher. But they're very unified. I think they're going to do a great job. But they have a small majority. You went through over 200 since we've got here. And we have breaking news today that we'll get to in a minute. And especially as it relates to the border and some other issues. But you're going to need to do some of these things legislatively. You will probably play the largest role in uniting them both in the House and Senate. Reconciliation, the Senate has very strict rules governing how they can do it. One big beautiful bill, two bills, do you care at this point? I don't care as long as we get to the final answer. I like the concept of the one bill. I guess I said one big beautiful and that's what everyone says. Actually, it's sort of a nice sound to it. But I do like that concept. It could be something else. It could be a smaller bill and a big bill. But as long as we get to the right answer. Now, I will say that Los Angeles has changed everything. Because a lot of money is going to be necessary for Los Angeles. And a lot of people on the other side want that to happen. North Carolina, too. Well, they don't care about North Carolina. The Democrats don't care about North Carolina. What they've done with FEMA is so bad. FEMA is a whole other discussion. Because all it does is complicate everything. FEMA has not done their job for the last four years. You know, I had FEMA working really well. We had hurricanes in Florida. We had Alabama, tornadoes. But unless you have certain types of leadership, it's really, it gets in the way. And FEMA is going to be a whole big discussion very shortly. Because I'd rather see the states take care of their own problems. If they have a tornado someplace, let that state. Oklahoma is very competent. I love Oklahoma. 77 out of 77 districts. And that's never been done before. I did it three times. I mean, think of it. Three times. Never been done. Ronald Reagan had the record. 56. 56 out of 77. I got 77 out of 77. See, I have to love a place like that. I love Oklahoma. But you know what? If they get hit with a tornado or something, let Oklahoma fix it. You don't need. And then the federal government can help them out with the money. But FEMA is getting in the way of everything. And the Democrats actually use FEMA not to help North Carolina. It makes no sense. So I'm stopping on Friday. I'm stopping in North Carolina. First stop. Because those people were treated very badly by Democrats. And I'm stopping there. We're going to get that thing straightened out because they're still suffering from a hurricane from months ago. And then I'm going to go to California. Will you meet with Gavin? I don't know. I haven't even thought about it. Look, Gavin's got one thing he can do. He can release the water that comes from the north. There is massive amounts of water, rainwater and mountain water, that comes through with the snow, comes down as it melts. There's so much water, they're releasing it into the Pacific Ocean. And I told him, it's a political thing for the Democrats. I played the tape. You said it to him in front of him in 2018. I said it to him in front of the media and everything else. And nobody talks about it. The media never picks it up. You put it out. I was so happy to see that tape because some people said, is that possible? They have water coming down from the Pacific Northwest. Talk about a water. So much water that they'd have to let some of it go at some point. They don't need reservoirs. They don't need any. They're spending all this money on these reservoirs. And they're fake reservoirs. But the reservoirs were empty. The hydrants didn't work. And they're not practicing the science of forestry. Sprinklers didn't work in the homes because they had no water. Think of it. We have sprinklers. Think of it with no water. They didn't have any water. The fire hydrants, you have to believe it. It's hard to believe. The place has sprinklers. It's nice. But you don't want to lose this office. By the way, how do you like it? Well, it's great to be back. I'm not going to lie. You know, I've had the biggest people in the world come here. And they come into the Oval Office. And they just look. And they want time to look. They're looking around. One day maybe we can do a tour. We had a conversation. And 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. 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 is the only other American president that did not serve consecutive terms. And my answer to you was, I thought it would be bigger if you came back. 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. They don't want to see men in women's sports in other ways. They don't want to have transgender for everyone. They don't want a child leave home as a boy and come back two days later as a girl. A parent doesn't want to see that. And there are states where that can happen. They don't want to see taxes go through the roof. Like, this is the only group of people. They say we want to raise your taxes. You know, if they don't work with us on the Trump tax cuts extending, that would mean it would go back to the taxes. We've got the largest tax cut in history. That would mean the taxes would go up more than any tax hike in the history of our country. And normally you'd say that's got to be the easiest negotiation in history, because if they did that, how could they ever win an election? But they'll fight us on that. They fight us on things. It's incredible. They don't use common sense. In my opinion, the Democrats don't use common sense. Common sense won the day in the election. Yeah, but you know the amazing thing? I'm watching now. Now it's time, and a few months have passed, and the election's over, and you see what happened. And it was a rout. I won all seven swing states. We won by millions of votes, the popular vote, millions. And nobody can even believe some of the numbers. And how about with African Americans, with Hispanics, with everything, how well we did? Nobody can believe the numbers. How about with youth? I won youth by 36 points. Now maybe that's because I went on TikTok. I don't know, but I'm starting to have a very warm start. TikTok is going to be sold, right? I think TikTok's going to be sold. I'll tell you, people want to buy it. People want to buy it. But those that say they know say it's 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? Let me get to some issues. The interesting thing with TikTok, though, is you're dealing with a lot of young people. They love it. Is it that important for China to be spying on young people, on young kids watching crazy videos? I don't want China spying on anybody. No, no, but they make your telephones, and they make your computers, and they make a lot of other things. Isn't that a bigger threat? I'm sure that'll be part of your discussions with President Xi, which I'm going to talk about in a moment. Let me go to the border. We do have breaking news today. I ran into Tom Holman as I was walking in today. And so far, 308 total arrests, 296 detainees, and the first deployment of military assets to the U.S. border. The deployment includes active-duty troops and the National Guard. And here's my biggest fear and concern beyond the Iranian assassination squads, is we now know 14 million. We don't know how many got aways. We don't know the total number. But we have known terrorists in our country. We have known murderers, rapists. We have violent criminals, cartel members, gang members. Now, I would imagine if you came from Iran and Syria and Egypt and Afghanistan and Russia and China and Venezuela, you didn't come here because you want a better life for your children. I would imagine those known terrorists are planning an attack on our homeland. At a moment's notice, you're going to be in this desk, maybe sitting at this desk or maybe up in the residence, and they're going to call you down in the Situation Room because our homeland is under attack. I would like to be wrong. But when you have known terrorists, you have to believe that they are going to attack our homeland. That would change their trajectory that moment of your entire presidency. That has to weigh on you. Yeah, it could be. And I know I've watched you for a lot of years, and you actually make one statement before you say that. You say, 100 percent certain. I do. That's a pretty big statement. And then I say, I pray to God I'm wrong. Yeah. I hope you're wrong, too. And I won't comment, but I tend to agree with you. It depends. We'll see what happens. Look, we have a lot of great people right now, a lot of great, great people on this situation. This was a gross miscarriage of common sense to allow people to come in. And I believe the number is 21 million people, and a large percentage of them are criminals all over the world. This is not just South America. This isn't—you know, we talk Venezuela. That's a big abuser. But these are countries from— Iran, Syria. Countries that you don't even think of. The Congo has emptied their prisons out into the United States. We're not thinking about the Congo. We're thinking about South America. It's much more than South America. But prisons from all over the world have been emptied out into our country by Biden, allowing it to happen. I don't even know if he knew what the hell was going on. But who would want this? I always say to people, you know, you always like to understand, like in a business, you want to understand the other side. Why do they want something? You know, et cetera, et cetera. And you figure it out. And there's usually an answer. Almost always. I don't understand. Why does somebody want open borders where—and they say the vote. OK, but I did well with the Hispanic vote. If you're looking at Hispanic, they say they do it because they want to think they're going to stay in power. It's going to be better for Democrats. I don't really believe that. Besides that, they cheat so much. They don't have to do that. They cheat so well. They're very good at cheating. The only thing they're good at really is cheating. But here's the thing I ask. Why would anybody that even likes—you don't have to love our country. You have to like it. Why would anybody that likes our country, the Democrats, allow that to happen? And even now, I watch them on television. They're trying to justify it. You can't justify it. The only reason it can be is two reasons. You're stupid, and I don't think they're stupid. I think anybody that cheats that much and that well is not stupid. You're either stupid or you hate the country. Those are the only two reasons. Sean, who would ask for open borders with people pouring in, some of whom—I won't get into it, but you can look at them and you can say, could be trouble. Could be trouble. There are people coming in. There are people with gang tattoos on. There are people coming in with tattoos all over their face. Their entire face is covered with tattoos. That identifies a gang. Typically, you know he's not going to be the head of the local bank. 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