President Obama may be chasing a golf ball in the far-off Hawaiian Islands, but his ego is omnipresent, as usual.

In a podcast released yesterday, Obama boasted that if he’d run against President-elect Donald J. Trump, he would have won.

“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” bragged the commander in chief.

Let me borrow a phrase from the outgoing vice president: Malarkey.

In the same way the polls diminished Trump’s actual popularity, they greatly inflated Obama’s. This president is not nearly as adored as the polls would have us believe. It was the anti-Brexit effect.

Why? We’ve had eight years of “fake news” distorting the culture so much that overt, critical speech about this president became a dangerous and daunting prospect to everyday Americans. So they voted against him and his programs in a more roundabout fashion.

They are afraid to tamper with the legacy of the man himself but are more than comfortable chucking everything he stands for into the political dumpster.

Democrats at every level have been cast out. State governments are robust with Republicans, and in Washington, D.C., the GOP hasn’t had a playing field this favorable since 1929. Every time President Obama’s policies have been on the ballot without the man himself, they’ve lost.

Now the voters have taken the final step and rejected those policies at the highest level, seeing that the cost of continuing them for another term would be the loss of our country forever.

Trump, the only Republican loud enough to drown out the usual chorus of liberal pundits and reporters, is the epitome of that rejection.

Trump would have trounced Obama because Americans came to realize a few things that the media had been hiding from them.

To name a few: He has been the worst foreign policy steward in the history of the country, inheriting relative peace and parlaying it into a renaissance for global Islamic terror. He has stifled economic growth and productivity with overbearing regulations and he and his Ivy League architects have broken our health care system.

But they got lazy and voters had enough. They knocked Hillary’s block off in one swing.

As for Obama, his presidency was repudiated more carefully and covertly, but repudiated nonetheless.

Other than a fondness for golf, President-elect Trump is the polar opposite of Obama in every way.

I think the American people articulated their feelings more than adequately.