President Barack Obama remains confident that Donald Trump will not be the next Oval Office occupant.

'I recognize that there is a deep obsession right now about Mr. Trump,' he said Thursday evening at a fundraiser, 'And one of you pulled me aside and squeezed me hard and said, "Tell me ... that Mr. Trump is not succeeding you!" '

Obama said he told the Democrat, 'Mr. Trump's not succeeding me.'

President Barack Obama remains confident that Donald Trump will not be the next Oval Office occupant. 'I recognize that there is a deep obsession right now about Mr. Trump,' he said Thursday evening at a fundraiser, but he again assured Democrats that won't happen

The president told attendees of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles, at the Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn, that Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, also vying for the GOP nomination, were helping, not hurting the party's chances of winning in November.

'Mr. Trump has actually done a service as Mr. Cruz is doing a service and that is laying bare, unvarnished some of the nonsense that we have been dealing with in Congress on a daily basis,' Obama argued, according to ABC News.

He said, 'People act as if these folks are outliers but they are not!'

'We should thank Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz for just being honest that this is how we're thinking these days, or not thinking these days.'

And he told them, 'it gives you a sense of what's at stake in this election.'

Tickets to the Bel-Air fundraiser ranged from $15,000 a person to $66,800 per couple.

House Minority Meader Nancy Pelosi, Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall, Katie McGrath and J.J. Abrams, Lyn and Norman Lear and Barbra Streisand and James Brolin all attended.

The president told attendees of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles, at the Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn, that Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, also vying for the GOP nomination, were helping, not hurting the party's chances of winning in November

The term-limited president has said several times over that he doesn't worry about a Trump presidency because he believes it won't happen.

He told NBC's Matt Lauer on the eve of his State of the Union address in January, '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, that isn't looking for simplistic solutions and scapegoating.'

The Democratic president reiterated his optimism during a press conference a month later.

'I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be President,' he told an NBC News Correspondent during a news conference.

Obama said 'the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people, and I think they recognize that being President is a serious job. It’s not hosting a talk show or a reality show. It’s not promotion. It’s not marketing.'

The president and his spokesman have become more aggressive about putting down Trump since the 2016 nomination contests began and the billionaire's ascent to the White House became a possibility.

Even as Obama has said he did not think Trump would win this past January, he dedicated his final State of the Union address to redirecting the country away from Trump's proposals and toward a more inclusive path.