Trump did not say last year that he endorsed large cuts to legal immigration, he wanted to end chain migration, where a legal resident alien can petition to bring in his brothers, sisters, parents, cousins, aunts, and uncles.
Trump prefers merit-based immigration, as is practiced in most other first world countries around the world.
Actually not just merit based. He’s been talking about more ag permits too. But the net effect of his position last year was a big cut in legal immigration:
What we really need is a moratorium on all immigration for a good decade—while we expel the 30 million-plus currently here illegally.