‘Stolen’ missile plans and ‘smart guy’ Kim Jong-un: Trump’s wildest claims in Sean Hannity interview
‘Stolen’ missile plans and ‘smart guy’ Kim Jong-un: Trump’s wildest claims in Sean Hannity interview
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President Trump made a raft of unsettling claims concerning his foreign adversaries in part two of his sit-down Fox News interview. Just days after returning to the White House earlier this week, Donald Trump gave his first televised interview to his close confidant: Sean Hannity.
![[Trump, pictured inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the South and North Korea on June 30, 2019, said the North Korean leader is a ‘smart guy’]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/24/08/GettyImages-1159161640.jpg)
The commander-in-chief sat down with the Fox News host in his Oval Office on Wednesday, with the first part of the discussion – covering everything from pardoning of the Jan. 6 rioters to TikTok spying rumours – being broadcast later that evening.
![[Part two of Donald Trump’s interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity aired on Thursday evening]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/24/15/Image.jpg)
Part two of his interview aired on Thursday, with Trump making a raft of brazen, often unsubstantiated claims surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war, Chinese tariffs, and tapping into US energy resources. Here are the key takeaways from the second half of the president’s pre-recorded interview.
Almost three years after Russian President Vladimy Putin ordered his forces to invade Ukraine in February 2022, Trump thrust some of the blame for the conflict on Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian President, he said, is “no angel” and “shouldn’t have allowed this war to happen”. Trump suggested that that the conflict erupted because Zelensky failed to wave the white flag in advance of Russian troops beginning their attack.
Trump slammed the Ukrainian president for “talking so brave” and taking on a much larger, more powerful entity, he said. Instead, Trump argued, “we could have made a deal”. He added: “I could have made that deal so easily. And Zelensky decided: ‘I want to fight.’”.
