Conservatives had a bone to pick with Fox News’ Sean Hannity for constantly interrupting President Donald Trump during an exclusive interview this week but they didn’t seem to have a problem with Trump commandeering the interview and refusing to talk about the economy.
Hannity, usually a favorite among conservatives, was chided up and down on social media Thursday.
MAGA influencer @catturd2 posted, “Hannity loves to hear himself talk. Pathetic,” in response to a regional Trump campaign official’s complaint, “Why can’t Hannity just hush and stop interrupting? This character flaw aggravates me so much. Let @POTUS speak man!!!”
A poster described as a “communications professional” wrote, “Yeah, there’s a difference between being a talk show host on the radio where you’re the only person in the room and the role of an interviewer. He hasn’t figured that out yet. Kind of a shame given the access he has.”
Yet another poster wrote, “Hannity Vanity – That’s my President.. Let him speak.”
Hannity interrupted Trump several times to change the topic to the economy — an issue pundits agreed helped Trump win the election. But Trump wasn’t having it, causing Hannity to keep interrupting.
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TRUMP: Joe Biden has very bad advisers. Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him.
HANNITY: Let me get to the economy.
TRUMP: Yeah, but Sean —
HANNITY: I’m running out of time.
TRUMP: I don’t care.
HANNITY: They’re yelling at me.
TRUMP: This is more important because right now the economy is going to do great. I’m here, so the economy —
HANNITY: I want to know about the economy.
TRUMP: But you have to understand, he had bad advisers on almost everything. It’s like, in the old days when the secretary of state said he never made a correct decision on foreign policy. Joe Biden got very bad advice.
A podcast host claimed Hannity was literally begging Trump to stay on track.
“Hannity begs Trump to shut the f— up about his revenge tour and talk about the economy, Trump admits he doesn’t care about the economy: 1. It was only ever about revenge 2. Biden’s economy is good enough for Trump.”
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