President Donald Trump spoke on Saturday night about the legacy he hopes to leave following his time in the Oval Office, saying he wants to be remembered as a “good person” who saved the United States from “the fall.”
Trump sat down for an interview with his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who asked the president how he “would like to be remembered.”
“A good person, but a person that saved our country,” Trump responded, before painting a grim picture of the state of the country under the Biden administration.
“I really believed 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,” the president said on Fox News’s My View With Lara Trump. “I really would like to be known as the man that saved our country.”
The interview came just before the one-year anniversary of the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, which saw him get shot in the ear before being rushed out of the area by Secret Service.
Trump has reflected on the harrowing experience throughout his time in office, including during a joint address to Congress in March when he said he was “saved by God to make America great again.”
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In a clip from the interview with Lara Trump that was released earlier this week, Donald Trump largely defended the Secret Service agents on his detail at the time, saying they’re “very capable” but “had a bad day.”
A new government report on the Butler assassination attempt was released on Saturday, which detailed various security lapses that the Secret Service made just days before the shooting, including failing to alert local police about a threat against Trump 10 days before the campaign event.