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Donald Trump said Monday that he's not ruling out overruling his decision not to run for president in 2012.

Trump, the real estate mogul who hosts NBC's "The Apprentice," continued to flirt with the possibility of seeking the Republican nomination in 2012, despite just having said that he'd recommitted to his TV show and wouldn't be running.

“I would not rule it out. I can’t rule out anything," Trump said on Fox News of the possibility of revisiting his decision if he's not pleased with the field of Republican candidates. "The country is so important and it’s so vital we choose the right person and at this moment I don’t see that person.”

After having publicly flaunted his potential candidacy for five months, during which he garnered headlines with bombastic claims about President Obama's birthplace, any potential for reversal by Trump is likely to be met with serious skepticism.

At the point of his withdrawal, Trum! p argued that he had the political momentum to win the nomination and beat Obama, something he claimed none of the Republican candidates currently in the race have.

"The ones that have announced, I just don’t see it," he said. "At this point in time, they aren’t going to be beating Obama.”