Former President Donald Trump was in a prickly mood during a lengthy interview with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, especially after O’Reilly asked him “How does it feel to be the most controversial president in history?”

Trump bristled at the question and refused to give ground to the accusation.

“I don’t think I’m the most controversial,” he said. He was not, however, able to provide O’Reilly with another more controversial president, Raw Story reports.

“I don’t know, but I don’t think I’m — look, I did a good job. I did, I think, a great job,” he said. Even though he left office with 400,000 Americans dead as of Jan. 20 from a pandemic he did little about. Even though he left office with unemployment rates considerably higher than when he began. And even though he left office with an approval rating of 34 percent.

Trump also told O’Reilly “I think in the end I will be judged not necessarily for controversy but because of what we did.” So would he be remembered for the thousands of children and parents that were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border due to draconian policies set in place by the Trump administration? Will Trump be remembered for the countless times he insulted foreign leaders, or for his total disbelief in climate change? Or will he be remembered for his racist treatment of African-Americans?

Who knows? There’s so much to unpack here.

And of course, O’Reilly had to jump in there by saying “They’ll know what you did.”

But why stop there when you can promote a couple of obvious falsehoods?

Trump talked up his “biggest tax cuts in history” which is complete blarney. A fact check by Newsweek proved that to be false. His next move was to pat himself on the back for the coronavirus vaccines.’

“If I hadn’t come up with a vaccine,” the former president said, quite obviously taking credit for the vaccine (of which there are currently three that the FDA has approved as emergency use) even though one of the vaccines was developed without any government assistance.

But in this case, that’s not all. Trump didn’t develop the vaccines, Forbes notes, even though he constantly asks for credit in doing this. Indeed, as Forbes notes, much of the credit for the vaccines should go to the people Trump loves to vilify most: immigrants.

“Ironically, immigrants played the crucial role in developing the vaccines, a group Trump as president has vilified,” notes Stuart Anderson for Forbes. “It’s fair to say if Trump administration immigration policies had been in place years earlier, including policies on international students, employment-based immigrants, and H-1B and L-1 visa holders, the individuals instrumental in making the COVID-19 vaccines a reality would never have lived or worked in America.”

So, like so many other times before, Trump is barking up the wrong tree. Even as he continues to give himself credit for things he never did.

“Somebody said the other day,” Trump said, claiming “somebody” was a historian, “they don’t know of any president that’s done more,” and no, of course, he didn’t have a name for this “historian.” Nor did this historian mention whether what the former president did was constructive or destructive.

One thing Trump will be remembered for: The fact that his family business and its CFO Allen Weisselberg have been hit with a “15-count indictment alleging criminal tax fraud, conspiracy and falsifying business records, which of course, Trump denounces.

Here’s what Trump had to say in the clip below. Starts at around 3:09.

.@BillOReilly asks President Trump about rising violent crime, the indictment of the Trump Organization, and his controversial presidency.

"I think, in the end, I will be judged not necessarily for controversy but because of what we did." pic.twitter.com/DJzbdxv53Z

— The First (@TheFirstonTV) July 9, 2021