Barack Obama has ended his silence following US President Donald Trump’s latest wave of tariffs, commenting that they won’t be “good for America.”

On April 2, Trump, 78, unveiled a fresh set of tariffs targeting countries exporting goods to the United States.

He introduced a 10 percent “baseline” duty to be applied across the board, while imposing steeper rates on a group of 60 nations labeled by Trump as the country’s “worst offenders.”

Nations hit hardest include Japan (24 percent), South Africa (30 percent), and Vietnam (46 percent).

Trump made the announcement during a Rose Garden speech at the White House, calling it “Liberation Day” for the country. Now, former President Barack Obama, 63, has spoken out.

Obama, who served as the 44th US President from 2009 to 2017, appeared at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, on Thursday (April 4) to address the newly imposed tariffs.

In a conversation with College President Steven Tepper, Obama shared that he’s currently working on completing the second part of his presidential memoirs, while also taking the opportunity to discuss the state of gun laws in America.

It was only later in the discussion that he turned his attention to Trump.

“I have deep differences of opinion with my most immediate successor — who’s now president once again,” Obama said.

“There are a host of policies that we could be discussing where I have strong opinions,” he added, expressing concern that the government’s commitment to foundational values has “eroded.”

He went on to share his views on the recently introduced trade duties.

“When I watch some of what’s going on now, it does not — look, I don’t think what we just witnessed in terms of economic policy and tariffs is going to be good for America, but that’s a specific policy,” he said.