Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin (Screenshot)

On his nationally syndicated radio talk show Monday, host Mark Levin lauded President Donald Trump for giving land back to the state of Utah, saying, it’s “truly crazy” how much land the federal government owns in the United States.

“25 percent or more of American land, of America, is controlled by the federal government – by the federal government – and it’s inching closer and closer to 30 percent,” stated Mark Levin. “This is how presidents try to make a, in part, a legacy for themselves. It’s an enormous amount of land. You look at some of these states out west – Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona – you know, you’re talking over 50 percent of the land mass, over 50 percent. That’s truly crazy – absolutely crazy.”

Levin’s comments came after President Trump rescinded national monument protections on 1.9 million acres of Utah canyon land, reported CNBC. “The previous administration used a 100-year-old law known as the Antiquities Act to unilaterally put millions of acres of land and water under strict federal control,” Trump said according to CNSNews.com, “eliminating the ability of the people who actually live in those states to decide how best to use that land. Today, we are putting the states back in charge.”

Below is a transcript of Levin’s remarks from his show Monday:

“The president of the United States did something that is fantastic again today. This is another reason why they want to get rid of him. “The so-called monument designation under the Antiquities Act has been abused by almost every president, but especially Barack Obama. This is where they take millions of acres of land, seize it from state governments, seize it from private property owners and the federal government decides it’s going to manage it. “Now, I can tell you, as the deputy solicitor to the interior department many, many decades ago, the federal government does not have the capacity to manage all of this land. It simply does not. It barely manages properly what it already has. It cannot. “And so the president of the United States gave multimillions of acres back to the state of Utah. I don’t know that this has ever been done, but it is a wonderful thing. “They have used this law to lock up hundreds of millions of acres of land and water under strict government control that most people are not allowed to use. “Now, there are people out there who will say this is a great thing. It’s a great thing that a president, like a dictator, can suddenly say, ‘All this land is going to belong to the federal government.’ Really? “‘Well, you know, we need to keep land pristine out there. We need to have some areas that are pristine.’ …