President Barack Obama and 2016 Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump traded jabs on each other to start the week.

In a pretaped "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday, Obama dismissed Trump as a "publicity-seeker" capitalizing on "anti-immigrant" beliefs among Republicans.

"He's tapped into something that exists in the Republican Party that's real," Obama said. "I think there is genuine anti-immigrant sentiment in a large portion of at least Republican primary voters."

Obama, pressed about Trump's chances, predicted that the Republican would ultimately flame out.

"I don't think he'll end up being the president of the United States," Obama said.

Trump responded both on Twitter (Obama was "terrible") and in a Monday morning "Fox & Friends" interview.

The business mogul took particular exception to Obama's focus on addressing global climate change.

"I don't get it: What's going on in our country? It can be fixed — and in many cases very easily — but we have somebody that's more worried about climate change than he is all of the problems that we have," Trump said, citing the economy and the Islamic State militant group. "All he talks about is climate change, and that is not our problem folks."

Trump also railed against both Obama's interview performance and the White House's support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

"I watched his performance last night and I thought it was terrible," Trump said. "I thought it was sad, because everything's negative. There's nothing positive. It's not like, 'How come are we doing so well here? How did you do these great trade deals?' Instead, we have a trade deal that's a disaster."

He said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner, reversed her own position to oppose the trade deal last week.

"Hillary Clinton finally got smart, even though she supported it," Trump said. "She probably heard my stance. It's a horrible trade deal. It's a disgusting trade deal."

Trump, however, was willing to give Obama a pass for predicting that he would ultimately lose the 2016 race.

"He can't say, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next president,' in all fairness," Trump said. "But I thought it was a little bit sad because there's so much negativity. It's just very negative."