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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."