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Donald Trump has been busy touting his possible presidential run.

 

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Trump praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo...

 

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...while taking aim at President Obama.

Trump said he was dismayed by Obama's strong support within the African-American community.

"I know many Obama supporters," Trump said on Albany's Talk 1300 radio. "I have a great relationship with the blacks but unfortunately the \[poll\] numbers that you cite are very, very frightening numbers."

Trump also said that he loves the Tea Party and would want to run for President on the Republican ticket, but had unabashed praise for newly-elected Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

"I think he is doing terrific job, setting a great example. He's doing it with style and with class and I'm very proud of him."

"I think he is doing a great job," Trump added.

Trump's threat of a presidential run has been largely built around him loudly trumpeting discredited theories about Obama's origins, but he appears to be trying to broaden his message.

"I look at the country. It's never been worse. It's run at a level that I've never seen anything like it. This is Jimmy Carter-esqe. I'm very seriously considering \[running\] and I'll make my decision sometime prior to June," he said.

Trump said he was looking forward to speaking at a Tea Party rally in Florida this weekend and said the rise of the group was a great thing for America.

"I'm big fan of the Tea Party because I really think they've provided a great service. It made people understand what is going on. It made people open their eyes," he said.

Trump tamped down reports that he would crassly use the finale of his TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice," to announce whether he would run - saying that it would violate election laws.

But his office later put out a statement hinting that he may use his show as a platform of sorts.

"On the May 22nd Season Finale of Celebrity Apprentice, Mr. Trump may announce the time and place of a press conference at which time he will make a statement as to whether or not he will run for President of the United States," the statement read.

The White House has dismissed the noise about a Trump candidacy as a "sideshow," and said he had "zero chance" of winning.

Trump insists he is Obama's worst nightmare.

"The one person they don't want to run against is me because I tell it like it is," he said.

Still, Trump continues to trumpet debunked "birther" theories about Obama being born in Kenya.

"Why doesn't he give his birth certificate? Why doesn't he show it. Why are there no records in the hospital, why does his grandmother say he was born in Kenya," he said.

Obama has made public a certificate saying he was born in a Hawaii hospital and has pointed to newspaper announcements of his birth in Honolulu newspapers as proof he was born there.

Numerous "birther" blogs have repeated the claim that Obama's grandmother said he was born in Kenya, but she says she has never said that.