President Trump re-upped his claim that Russia stole the plan for hypersonic missiles during the Obama administration.

“Russia stole the design, they got it from us,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. Part two of the interview, his first since taking the reins at the White House, was aired Thursday night.

“Some bad person gave them the design,” he said, adding that the United States will have super hypersonic missiles “which is even a step better.”

He said “we’ll have them starting fairly shortly.”

Mr. Trump has said this before — he told supporters in 2023 that Russia stole the “super-duper missile” plans.

The Kremlin hit back at the claims at the time, saying “we have our own missile, an excellent one.”

“It’s hard for me to say whether our missile fits in well with Mr. Trump’s term ‘super-duper,’ but it is a good missile that has no rivals in the world for now. And there is not just one,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said then.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.