WATCH: Biden slams Republicans, Trump during cringeworthy interview on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Biden's appearance on the show was an attempt to start gaining ground from his tanking approval rating which was down to 39 percent towards the end of May in an AP-NORC poll, his worst since being sworn into office. An ABC-IPSOS poll published earlier in the week showed that only 28 percent of Americans approve of Biden's handling of inflation and 27 percent approve of his response to spiking fuel prices.

The ratings were far below those from an AP poll from the same time last year showed Biden with an approval rating of 63 percent, 24 points higher than his May 2022 rating.

For Biden’s first network interview in 118 days Wednesday night, and his first in-person appearance on a late-night talk show as President, he began by discussing gun control with the host and immediately attacked Republicans saying, "A lot of it is intimidation by the NRA. Look, this is not your father's Republican Party. This is a MAGA party."

He even joked about sending his political opponents to jail.

Kimmel asked Biden about issuing an executive order on gun control, claiming that former President Donald Trump "passed those out like Halloween candy."

Biden replied, "I have issued executive orders within the power of the presidency to be able to deal with everything having to do with guns, gun ownership… all of the things that are within my power."

He added, "But what I don’t want to do, and I’m not being facetious, I don’t want to emulate Trump’s abuse of the constitution and constitutional authority."

Biden also accused Republicans of placing democracy in jeopardy. "I often get asked, 'the Republicans don't play it square, why do you play it square? If we do the same thing they do, our democracy would literally be in jeopardy. That's not a joke!"

Kimmel theorized that Democrats are frustrated because they won the House, Senate and presidency but have made very little progress on big-ticket agenda items and added that "in some ways we've moved backwards."

Biden replied, "we've actually made some real moves" with regard to climate change and cited efforts to push solar and wind energy and electric vehicles.

Despite Americans facing record-high inflation and soaring gas prices Biden stated, "We have the fastest-growing economy in the world. We have 8.6 million new jobs since I got into office. Unemployment rate's down to 3.6 percent. We reduced the deficit last year by $320 billion. This year we're gonna reduce it by $1.7 trillion."

Biden did concede that inflation was "the bane of our existence," and pivoted to working to lower the cost of healthcare, prescription drugs and childcare.

Biden also told Kimmel that he has never been so optimistic in his life and said that American children are the best educated, the least prejudiced and the most giving generation in American history.

Ironically, when Biden was discussing the failure of his administration to effectively communicate his message and achievements, he began to ramble, causing Kimmel to interrupt him and cut to commercial.

Towards the end of the interview, Biden said he doesn't think "the country will stand for it" if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, and implied that there are executive orders he could issue in response to the ruling but did not give details.

He added that if the Supreme Court overrules Roe it will cause a "mini-revolution," and that many people could get voted out of office.

The last time Biden sat for a network interview was on Feb. 10 when he joined NBC's Lester Holt prior to the Superbowl.