Donald Trump gave New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo a high-profile shout-out on national TV Monday — praising the veteran newsman for a column he wrote about the GOP nominee’s role in reviving the Big Apple.

Trump first cited a story in the Washington Post about how Hillary Clinton’s promises to bring jobs to upstate New York when she ran for the US Senate failed miserably, before turning to Cuozzo.

“Compare that to my record. In a recent New York Post article by Steve Cuozzo, ‘How Donald Trump helped save New York City,’ the paper writes that I, and this is a direct quote, ‘waded into a landscape of empty Fifth Avenue storefronts, the dust bowl mugging ground that was Central Park and a Wall Street area seemingly on its last legs as companies moved out … almost by force of will [he] rode to the rescue.’”

“’Expressing rare faith in the future, he was instrumental in kickstarting the regeneration of neighborhoods and landmarks almost given up for dead,’” Trump said, quoting The Post during a speech on his fiscal policies to the Detroit Economic Club that was carried on CNN.

“This is what I want to do for our country. I want to jump-start America.”