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Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy conducted a starkly different interview on Thursday with President-elect Donald Trump from those he’s had with President Joe Biden and members of his administration.

Doocy has cut a dogged presence in White House briefings, where he had routinely sparred with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. On much rarer occasions, he’s mixed it up with Biden himself.

“Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?” Doocy asked the president at the end of a photo op in January 2022.

“No, it’s a great asset,” Biden said sarcastically, apparently unaware his microphone was still on. “More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.”

On Thursday night, Doocy was at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump hosted the nation’s Republican governors ahead of his second term. The president-elect gave remarks and took questions from Doocy.

Below are the seven creampuff questions from Doocy, along with abridged responses from Trump:

DOOCY: President Trump, just a few minutes ago, the Supreme Court ruled that they are not going to slow down the sentencing. It’s on for tomorrow. Now what?TRUMP: Well, they called for an appeal. And, as you know, they acknowledged what the judge said about no penalty. And there is really is no penalty, but we going to appeal anyway just psychologically because frankly, it’s a disgrace. It’s a judge that shouldn’t have been on the

case. He’s a highly conflicted judge. And, Frank. And they call for an appeal. So I read it and I thought it was a fair decision, actually. So I’ll do my little thing tomorrow…DOOCY: [INAUDIBLE] …yesterday in Washington. Which of your nominees do they think are going to have the hardest time getting confirmed?TRUMP: So, we had a great meeting with almost every Republican senator. First of all, it was a love fest. This is a love fest too, I believe. I’ll let you know in about an hour. [Laughter] This is pretty much a love fest…DOOCY: We’ve been watching over the last couple of weeks, a lot of CEOs, including some who censored you four years ago have been coming down here basically to kiss the ring. Did they change or did you change?TRUMP: Well, maybe we all changed. I think they’ve gained a lot of respect. I think they looked at the mandate we got. As you know we won the popular vote, as I said. We won all seven swing states… I had to win three because [UNINTELLIGIBLE] had a lot of early voting going on. And we had to win three and we won all seven. And we won them by a lot. We didn’t win them by a little. We won them by a lot. And we won the popular vote by a lot. I
think that had an effect. I also think it’s like, let’s get something done. You look at what happened with Facebook today and yesterday, what they announced. That was a big concession from them…DOOCY: A ton of world leaders have called you as well. We understand still no call with Putin. Is that a day-one or week-one call–?TRUMP: He wants to meet. And we’re going– we’re setting it up. President Xi, we have had a lot of communication. And we have a lot of meetings set up with a lot of people. Some have come, but I’d rather wait until after the 20th.DOOCY: So, when you say meet with Putin or meet with Xi, do you guys want to have some kind of a summit or are they going to come here?TRUMP: To be determined, but President Putin wants to meet. He’s said that even publicly. And we have to get that war over with. That’s a bloody mess. Soldiers are being killed by the millions…DOOCY: When you threatened tariffs on Canada a couple weeks ago, Justin Trudeau rushed down here. He wanted to make nice. Now he’s on the way out. Is that what you wanted?TRUMP: I didn’t think he was going to quit. You probably saw the numbers. Look, I called him “Governor Trudeau” because they should be
the 51st state, really. It would make a great state. And the people of Canada like it. They’d pay lower taxes. They have virtually no military. They have a very small military. They pay less than 1%. They’re about the lowest payer in NATO. They’re supposed to pay much more…DOOCY: A story that kind of disappeared very suddenly – do you any idea whatever happened to the drones?TRUMP: What happened to drones?DOOCY: Well, you said you knew– you thought the government knew what was happening with these drones over New Jersey. There were some by Bedminster–TRUMP: I don’t know. They’re all over Bedminster a lot. I’m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it’s ridiculous that they’re not telling you about what’s going on with the drones… Peter, thank you very much. Does Biden do– I mean does he do this kind of a news conference?DOOCY: This is my longest-ever interview of a president.TRUMP: Yeah, well, the longest ever before this was one question and they would rush you out of the room, right? But we have nothing to hide. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you, Peter.

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