Trump tells Stephen A. Smith he'd beat Obama 'easily' in a third-term matchup: 'I think he's highly overrated'

President Trump told Stephen A. Smith he would beat former President Barack Obama "easily" if both men could run for a third term, and called Obama "highly overrated," in an interview recorded at the White House and released Thursday on Smith's "Straight Shooter" show.

Smith set it up as a hypothetical, saying he did not want to hear about getting around the 22nd Amendment. "If you could run for president again, so could Barack Obama," he said. "What would Donald Trump do if he had to square off against Barack Obama?"

"Well, I got many more votes than he got, and I got many more votes in the states," Trump said. "If you take a look at Texas, I have the all-time record. Florida, I have the all-time record."

"Are you saying you would beat Obama?" Smith asked.

"Yeah, I think I'd beat him easily," Trump said. "I think he's highly overrated."

"Oh my Lord," Smith answered, and asked how Obama could be overrated. "That's just my opinion," Trump said. "I didn't think he was a good president. I thought he was a divider."

Asked whether he sees himself as someone who brings people together, Trump said he does it through success, pointing to what he called $22 trillion in investment coming into the United States. "It's the biggest number ever in history, by many times," he said.

Obama campaigned for Democrats in last week's midterms, including Senate winners Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.