President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE is denying he will take a "wrecking ball" to President Obama's legacy.

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In an interview that aired Sunday on "Fox News Sunday," host Chris Wallace said the president-elect has named people to his administration who are "diametrically opposed to what those agencies have been doing for the last eight years."

"Fair to say that you're going to take a wrecking ball to the Obama legacy?" he asked.

"No. No. No. I don't want to do that at all. I just want what's right," Trump responded.

The president-elect went on to blast the EPA for the way it is run.

"EPA, you can't get things approved," he said during the interview.

"I mean, people are waiting in line for 15 years before they get rejected, okay? That's why people don't want to invest in this country."

There are also many people in the country who don't have jobs and have given up looking, the president-elect said.

"Take a look at the real jobs report, which are the millions of people that gave up looking for work, and they're not considered in that number that's less than 5 percent, okay?" he said.

"I mean, we have jobs that are in the pipeline and I deal with all the executives, the big ones and the small ones. I have really gotten to know this country and when you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good."

Trump said during his presidency, he would "clean it up."

"We're going to speed it up," he said, "and, by the way, if somebody is not doing the right thing we're not going to approve."