‘The Man That Saved Our Country’: Donald Trump Talks About What He Wants His Legacy To Be

President Donald Trump did a one-on-one with Fox News’ Lara Trump Saturday where he touched on a whole host of issues, including his legacy.

Lara began by asking Trump whether the four-year gap between his terms has played a role in his recent successes. (RELATED: Editor Daily Rundown: President Trump Speaks With Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese)

“Well, experience is very important in life. I think talent is more important than experience but if you can have them both somehow it’s a very good thing, but experience is very important,” he responded.

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“I think it also helped; it was very bad for the country, but it also helped to have four years of horror. What went before me was horror, and by comparison, I think anything looks good, and I don’t want to demean what we’ve done because we’ve done a lot of records,” he went on to say. “What they’ve done to our country should never be forgiven … allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country that shouldn’t be here.”

“It was almost like they tried to kill our country,” Trump said while describing what he called a “horror show” for the four years Biden was president.

Trump then went on to tout his administration‘s successes and compliments he’s received from other world leaders.

“The beautiful thing is, now we have the hottest country in the world,” he proclaimed.

“You know I was with the king of Saudi Arabia, the leader of Qatar, the leader of the UAE, and many other leaders at NATO. Separately, every one of them virtually said, ‘you have the hottest country in the world right now, and six months ago, we thought your country was dead.’ They actually thought it was dead and it felt dead. We had not only no leadership, we had negative leadership. So I think that probably makes it look good too, but we’ve done a lot.”

Lara then asked Trump what kept him going after losing the 2020 election when people were saying it wasn’t possible for him to make his way back to the White House.

“Well, number one, I saw what was happening to the country. They were destroying our country. They were allowing people to come into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, gang members — the worst gang members in the world, make our gang members look like … nice people — they were coming in at levels that nobody had ever seen before. No checking, no vetting, no anything, just come into our country and do whatever you want,” Trump said.

Trump also added that fixing the border crisis is a big job along with what his administration is already doing by lowering the costs of energy and curbing inflation.

“It’s a big job getting thousands … hundreds of thousands of criminals out of our country. 11,888 murderers, many of those people have killed more than one person … and he [Joe Biden] let them into our country,” he said. “I guess it wasn’t him so much as the people surrounding the beautiful resolute desk — and I know them all — and they’re not good, they’re smart but they’re not good. They’re smart in a different way, but evil intention”

“He was the worst president in the history of our country,” Trump went on to say, talking about Biden. “Nobody’s done such damage to our country, and we’re fixing it and I think we’re fixing it very fast.” (RELATED: One Year Later, Questions Remain About Butler Despite Trump Being ‘Very Satisfied’ With Investigation)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump finished the interview by talking about how he would like to be remembered from his time as president.

“A good person, but a person that saved out country. I really believe our country was going down for the fall. I don’t know if it ever could’ve come back, it was very close to the edge,” he said

“I really would really like to be known as the man the saved our country.”