"I’ve been saying during this whole campaign that I’m a counter puncher," Donald Trump said. | Getty Trump: I'm just a person 'fighting for survival'

For all his political and business cachet, Donald Trump does not see himself as powerful.

“Well, I don’t view myself as that," the presumptive Republican nominee told Megyn Kelly in an interview set to air Tuesday night on Fox News Channel's prime-time special "Megyn Kelly Presents."


To hear Trump tell it to Kelly, with whom he sat down earlier this month at Trump Tower after the Fox News journalist reached out to him, the billionaire businessman is an everyman.

"I mean, I view myself as a person that — like everybody else — is fighting for survival. I, that’s all I view myself as," he said, according to a released excerpt. "And I really view myself now as somewhat of a messenger… You know, this is, um … This is a massive thing that’s going on. These are millions and millions of people that have been disenfranchised from this country.”

In previously released clips from the interview, Trump remarked that he was never bullied in life, but that he knew of people who were bullied later in life.

"It can happen when you're 45," said Kelly, who turned 45 last November.

"I’ve been saying during this whole campaign that I’m a counter puncher," Trump said. "You understand that. I’m responding. Now, I then respond times maybe ten I don’t know. I respond pretty strongly, but in just about all cases I’ve been responding to what they did to me."