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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, April 6, in Bethpage, N.Y. | AP Photo Trump to Obama: Your administration is 'half-baked'

Donald Trump has a message for President Barack Obama after he dismissed his plan earlier this week to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it as "half-baked": I know you are but what am I?

“Well I mean, his whole administration is half-baked. They don’t know what they’re doing," the Republican front-runner told Fox News' Brian Kilmeade before striding on-stage for a rally in Bethpage, New York, on Wednesday night, in a clip aired Thursday morning. "We’re gonna build it, Mexico’s gonna pay for it. I explained how they could pay — I mean, we have many different ways, but I explained how they’re gonna pay for it.”

Explaining his loss in Wisconsin on Tuesday, Trump first referred to his "landslide" victory in the Arizona primary "a couple of weeks ago," adding, "you know, I wasn’t expected to win Wisconsin, and I think we did very well."

"I got 36 or so in terms of a percentage, 36 percent. Uh, we picked up some delegates," Trump said. "I was pretty happy. I mean we had a lot of people against me. We had millions and millions of dollars spent — you know the anti-Trump meeting, the establishment was spending a lot of money. And frankly, if they spent that kind of money against Obama, they might have beaten him.”

Pressed on whether he would consider expanding his staff as the campaign moved to another stage, Trump demurred. “Well I’m winning with a smaller staff. Don’t you want that as your president? I’m winning by a lot," he said.

“Well I think we want to keep it the same, Brian," he said, when asked whether he was also considering changing his routine given recent past regrets about retweets and walk-backs. "We’re leading by so much, and I think I want to keep it going the same. And now I’m on very friendly territory, it’s New York.”

While noting that he has a "very strong plan" if he does not accrue 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention, Trump expressed confidence that he would have the nomination locked up before that time.

And as far as playing nice with the Republican establishment, Trump showed little sign of a new tone. Asked his plans on "reaching out" to other people involved in the process, he indicated that he is prepared to do so, but now is not the right time.

“I have great relationships with people. My whole business — I built a ma — you know, a phenomenal business. And a lot of it’s built on relationship," he said. "And I am going to have great relationships with everybody when it’s time, but it’s not time right now.”