(CNN) President Barack Obama said wait until Trump actually wins the presidency before you blame him for creating the climate for the billionaire businessman's political rise.

"Talk to me if he wins, then we'll have a conversation about how responsible I feel about it," Obama said in an interview for the "Today" show on NBC the morning of his final State of the Union address.

Obama downplayed Trump's success in the Republican primary, saying, "the message that Donald Trump is putting out has had adherence a lot of times during the course of our history."

"I'm pretty confident that the overwhelming majority of Americans are looking for the kind of politics that does feed our hopes and not our fears, that does work together and doesn't try to divide us," Obama said. "That isn't looking for simplistic solutions and scapegoating, but looks for us, you know, buckling down and figuring out how do we make things work for the next generation?"

Pressed by host Matt Lauer whether he could ever imagine a President Trump delivering a State of the Union address, Obama shot back, "Well, I can imagine it in a Saturday night skit."

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