Almost 10 minutes before a rival spoke at the GOP debate, former President Donald Trump came out blasting away at all the “bullshit” that’s being thrown at him as he tops the primary polls.

In a pre-recorded interview with Tucker Carlson on X, the former Twitter platform, the Republican front-runner called out President Biden’s competency.

“He’s worse mentally than his is physically,” Trump said of Biden, adding photos of the president on the beach is not helping those struggling.

Trump predicted the Democrats “will have some kind of primary.” Vice President Kamala Harris or California Gov. Gavin Newsom would be in that race, Trump said. But he’d rather face Biden in the general election, he told Carlson.

It was a polite give-and-take with Carlson steering the conversation toward China, D.C. institutions, GOP rivals, and if Trump is worried after four indictments is he concerned he’ll be “killed.”

“They are savage animals. They are really sick,” Trump said, alluding to Democrats out to lock him up.

Trump pivoted to say voters understand what’s happening to him. “I have never seen spirit like it is now,” the former president said. He later added: “I hold up rather well. The people see it’s a fraud. They see it.”

Trump said they have “weaponized” prosecutors in Manhattan and Atlanta

Trump posted on social media he’d turn himself in Thursday to the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta to be booked on charges he orchestrated a “criminal enterprise” to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia.

One of his 18 co-defendants, Rudy Giuliani, was booked Wednesday in the jail.

President Biden’s campaign team didn’t waste time sending out an email knock at Trump for skipping the first GOP presidential debate of the 2024 election season. Instead of being in Milwaukee, Wis., with his eight challengers, Biden’s team accused Trump of sitting down for a “softball interview” with Tucker Carlson on X — the former Twitter.

“He’s running on the same extreme and deeply unpopular MAGA agenda the American people have rejected time and time again,” Biden, through his campaign, said.