"Look, what is she going to say? Is she going to say I'm fantastic?" Trump asked ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.
"Is she going to say, 'Trump is better at that than any other human being in the world,' OK, which I believe I am," he said.
Obama has been one of Clinton's most vocal surrogates in recent weeks, giving a number of well-received speeches on the former secretary of state's behalf but never mentioning Trump by name.
But the target of the first lady’s criticism is obvious, including her remarks about the "hurtful, deceitful" birther theory that Trump popularized and his "locker-room talk" defense for a 2005 recording on which he apparently boasts of groping women without their consent.
"If a candidate is erratic and threatening, if a candidate traffics in prejudice, fear and lies on the campaign trail, if a candidate thinks that not paying taxes makes you smart or that it's good business when people lose their homes, if a candidate regularly and flippantly makes cruel and insulting comments about women -- about how we look, how we act -- well, sadly, that's who that candidate really is," Obama said in one of her earlier campaign speeches in Pennsylvania.
Trump played down such comments.
"Look, she's the first lady,” he told ABC News. “She's got to say what she's got to say. I mean, I understand that. That's the game," he told ABC News.
Trump did bring up a comment that Obama made during the 2008 presidential primaries.
"One of the things, the important aspects of this race, is role modeling what good families should look like. And my view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House," Obama said at an event in August 2007, according to Politifact.
Some viewed that as a veiled swipe at the Clintons, though shortly after Michelle made that comment, Barack Obama told reporters “there was no reference beyond her point that we have had an administration that talks a lot about family values but doesn’t follow through.”
Trump dismissed the idea that Michelle was taking about her own family.
“Oh come on. Look, you know better than that,” Trump said to ABC News on Wednesday.
"That was during the campaign," Trump said of the statement. "She said about Hillary Clinton, 'You can't take care of your own house,' meaning Bill Clinton, 'Then how you can take care of the White House?' It was a vicious statement. It was covered at the time. And it's gone all over the world," Trump said.
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