Trump shuts down Sean Hannity with three words during tirade on Biden in first TV interview

President Donald Trump shut down Fox News' Sean Hannity with three words as he went on a tirade about President Joe Biden during the first TV interview of his second term Wednesday. 

Trump spent portions of the interview expressing dismay over Biden's decision to issue preemptive pardons to some of the Democrat's family members and some of the Republican president's political enemies.

As their time came to a close, the Fox News host told Trump 'let me get to the economy' and 'I'm running out of time.'

'I don't care,' the new president responded. 

He then turned back to bashing Biden's decision-making skills, including the ex-president's decision not to pardon himself.

'This is more important because right now the economy is going to do great. I'm here, so the economy - but you have to understand, he had bad advisers on almost everything,' Trump said of Biden.

Hannity interjected saying he was being yelled at for time - but Trump kept going. 

'It's like in the old days when the secretary of State said he never made a correct decision on foreign policy,' Trump said, meaning to quote a former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.  

Over the course of Hannity's hour-long program, Trump also hinted at another government agency he wanted to scrap and revealed the latest on the JFK assassination files. 

But the issue of pardons was front-and-center. 

In a clip shared earlier Wednesday by Fox, Trump is heard giving a cryptic warning about Biden making a mistake in not pardoning himself. 

Trump repeated that point several times during the full interview with Hannity. 

'The precedent that he set on pardons is amazing. That's a much bigger story but people don't like talking about it. He pardoned everybody,' Trump said. 'But he didn't pardon himself.' 

'Remember this, those people that he pardoned are now mandated, because they got a pardon, to testify and they can't take the Fifth,' Trump claimed. 

Hannity asked Trump if he would like to see Congress investigate Biden's pardons. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson already expressed openness to that. 

'I think we'll let Congress decide,' Trump said. 

Hannity asked the same question about his attorney general, who is expected to be former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi once she passes Senate confirmation. 

'I was always against that with presidents,' Trump replied. 

'Hillary Clinton, I could have had Hillary Clinton, a big number done on her,' the president added. 

He then pointed to his own legal issues - having been indicted in four separate cases for a mix of crimes related to hush money payments, the storage of classified documents and the effort to overturn the 2020 election and January 6th. 

'I went through four years of hell,' the newly sworn-in president said. 'I spent millions of dollars in legal fees and I won, but I did it the hard way.' 

'It's really hard to say they shouldn't have to go through it all,' Trump added. 

Trump also spoke with Hannity about his first trip as president - he'll head to Asheville, North Carolina on Friday to see how the rebuilding effort is coming along after Hurricane Helene flooded the region.

The president will then fly to Los Angeles to survey wildfire damage. 

When talking about disaster relief, Trump suggested that he'd be open to killing FEMA - the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

'All it does is just complicate everything,' he complained. 'FEMA has not done their job for the last four years.' 

'Unless you have certain types of leadership, 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,' Trump said. 

He then spoke glowingly of Oklahoma's 'very competent' disaster response - and how the state voted for him in the last election.   

Hannity also pressed Trump on another campaign promise - that he would release the classified files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy - the father of his chosen Health and Human Services secretary - and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. 

Trump said when he was president four years ago several high-ranking government officials asked him not to release the Kennedy files - as he pointed to one person in particular. 

'I was actually asked by Mike Pompeo, secretary of State, not to, and I felt he knew something that maybe, you know , when he asked you not to, you sort of say "why?" and he felt that it was not a good time to release them,' Trump said. 

Trump said at the time he respected Pompeo and the others as 'professionals.' 

Pompeo, a Kansas Republican, was Trump's CIA director before heading the State Department. 

'But I'm going to release them immediately,' Trump said, adding 'we're looking at it right now.'