The eldest son of President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., told Breitbart News Saturday that he is quite happy that Barack Obama is now active ahead of the 2018 midterms.

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Because it shows a clear and definite contrast between the former president’s failed policies, he said — and the successful policies of his father.

“Without question, he’s our best salesman,” Trump Jr. said of Obama to Breitbart on SiriusXM 125.

“No one with a brain actually believes he did anything good for our economy or for our foreign policy,” he said.

Don Jr. also said, “Everyone saw that anything he did basically put America at risk and made us weaker. Every time he drew a red line, other countries walked all over it. He did it again, and they walked all over it.”

“Guess what? Countries, whether it’s foreign policy-wise or whether it’s business-wise, they realize you have someone now that actually cares about America in there, that’s actually doing it — not someone who’s going to make us look weak where you can walk all over us because that’s the precedent that he set. There’s a new sheriff in town. We’ve changed all that.”

Don Jr. also criticized former President Obama’s attempts during a series of recent speeches to claim credit for the successful Trump economy, as Breitbart noted.

“The biggest joke I’ve seen in the last two years is Obama claiming credit — trying to claim this economy,” Trump Jr. said, “because his policies of overtaxation, oppressive regulation, guess what? That didn’t do anything. That drove this country into the ground. That led to the worst recovery in the history of probably economics, but certainly our country’s history.”

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He continued, “For him to run around doing this now — there’s a reason why on Nov. 9, 2016, all of those matrices shot up like a rocket. It’s because businesses, employers, people realized you got someone who’s actually going to fight for you, not fight just for special interests, not fight for people in countries that hate our guts, but actually fight for real Americans. Real Americans, their jobs, their companies, their businesses.”

“That’s what happened,” he added, “and when consumer confidence started going up the day my father won because they knew he wasn’t going to oppress them, everything started following. I want to keep that going; that’s how we get rid of some of the other problems we’re having.”

“That’s how we get rid of unfunded pension liability,” he said. “That’s how we get rid of some of our deficits, is by producing, having GDP numbers above 4 percent. Okay, remember when Obama said you need a ‘magic wand’ to make that happen? Well, abracadabra, Obama. We’re doing it.”

Back in 2016, Obama infamously asked if Trump had some sort of “magic wand” to right the economy — in order to fulfill the campaign promises he was making at the time.

Trump Jr. also took a swipe at Democrat Hillary Clinton during the Breitbart interview.

He said Clinton’s appearances these days are actually great for the Republican Party.

“I love for her to be out there,” Don Jr. said of Hillary Clinton. “The more she’s out there, the better it is for us.”