Donald Trump tried convincing journalist Bob Woodward that he, along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has broken every judicial appointment record. The president noted that only the country's first president, George Washington has a better percentage.

The president's remarks were part of a series of interviews with Woodward for his new book entitled, “Rage” and were made in Dec. 2019. Obtained by the Washington Post, the comments were released publically following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Trump said he will be naming a nominee to fill the seat vacated after the passing of Ginsburg. As of Jan., he had appointed 187 judges to the federal slots, making one in every four circuit court judges, a Trump appointee.

Aside from that, he also appointed two judges to the Supreme Court including Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. "The only one that has a better percentage is George Washington," Trump told Woodward, per Washington Post.

He goes on to explain why Washington has a better percentage by saying the former president appointed 100 percent. Trump tells the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that he is likely to have over 50 percent of the federal judges in the U.S., in an audio recording Woodward released to CNN.

Moreover, the president took a jab at his predecessor, President Barack Obama for leaving over 100 vacancies in the federal courts, describing them as "golden nuggets" in May during an interview with Woodward. A considerable number of vacancies on the federal bench were a result of McConnell’s efforts in the Republican-controlled Senate to restrict Obama appointees.

The most evident move by McConnell to restrict an Obama appointee was back in 2016 when he refused to act on the former president's nomination of Merrick Garland to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia during an election year. Trump told Woodward that the biggest thing in the whole world for Mitch is his judges, noting that he always urged him to let get the judge approved rather than ten ambassadors.

After Ginsburg’s death, Democrats have given their argument a moral aspect, telling their Republican colleagues to refrain from filling the seat until the next president is selected. They argue that senators should adopt the model set by McConnell in 2016.

Joe Biden suggested that if his rival Trump wins the election, the Senate should move on his selection and weigh the nominee he fairly chooses. If, on the other hand, Biden wins the election, the Democratic presidential nominee says Trump’s nominee should be withdrawn and he should be the one who nominates Justice Ginsburg’s successor as the new president.