Former US president Donald Trump speaks at the Ice Arena at the Monument in Rapid City, South Dakota, September 8, 2023. (AFP photo)

The United States is going to hell, former president Donald Trump has said.

Trump said on Thursday that re-electing him in the upcoming presidential election would give the nation a last chance to turn things around.

He told the SiriusXM satellite radio station that the United States is in a rapid decline.

The leading Republican contender in the 2024 presidential election said the US has one last chance, which makes the vote the most important election we’ve ever had.

Our country is going bad, our country is being destroyed under the administration of President Joe Biden, he said. We’re a nation in serious decline, and I think I can turn it around very fast.

I have a great attitude, it doesn’t affect me at all because I’m fighting for the country, I’m fighting for the people, said the 77-year-old former president who faces multiple charges in US courts.

Trump once again stated that he does not believe Biden will stand for re-election in 2024 due to what he described as the president’s apparent poor health.

I watched him yesterday, he couldn’t put two sentences together, he can’t talk, he said of the 80-year-old Democratic president. It’s not an age thing, it’s a competence thing.

The former president also said the good polling numbers make him confident he is going to win the election no matter what happens because the people know the charges are fake.

A survey, published by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday, suggested that 62% of Republican voters want him to be their party’s nominee in 2024.

According to the poll, Trump is currently trailing the incumbent President Joe Biden by just 1%.

Trump now faces four criminal indictments in three separate jurisdictions and a number of civil lawsuits as he continues his campaign.

The charges stem from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, his retention of classified documents after his defeat and hush-money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

The Republican party’s front-runner, however, has told millions of his followers that prosecutors are only playing politics.

He faces roughly 75 years in prison if convicted on all counts. But if he is back in power, he could put off serving prison time until after his term concludes.

Trump, however, said on Thursday that it is very unlikely that he would pardon himself if he wins another term in 2024, and that he didn’t do anything wrong.