In the Fox interview, Trump also said he does not need daily intelligence briefings because they are so repetitive, but the vice president-elect is receiving them.

"I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years," Trump said, "If something should change from this point, immediately call me. I'm available on one-minute's notice."

"I get it when I need it", he said.

As for setting up a blind trust to manage his assets so as to avoid conflicts of interests during his presidency, Trump only said that his "executives" and his children would run his companies in his absence.

"My executives will run it with my children. It's a big company, it's a great company. But I'm going to have nothing to do with management",he said, rejecting suggestions that foreign governments and others would try to buy influence by buying into Trump products.

In the interview, Trump also indicated after taking office next month, he would re-start the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines which have been blocked by the Obama administration.