NEW YORK (WCMH) — Eric Trump is defending his father’s success, saying Donald Trump is the epitome of the American dream for having “gone from just about nothing” to the successfull real estate mogul he is today.

“Well, I think he’s a guy who has been an entrepreneurial guy,” Eric Trump told Fox News on Friday. “He’s built an amazing company. He’s become the epitome of the American dream.”

Eric Trump said millennials can relate to his father because “he’s gone from just about nothing.”

“He’s epitomized what America is all about: opportunity and working hard and being able to achieve your dreams and what you want to succeed, right?” Trump said.

Eric Trump even compared his father to Mark Zuckerberg’s success.

Donald Trump got his start in part to a $1 million loan from his father, Fred Trump, in the late 1960s or early 1970s, CNN reports. In 2015, Trump described that loan as “small.”

“My whole life really has been a ‘no’ and I fought through it,” Trump said at an NBC-sponsored town hall in October. “It has not been easy for me, it has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.”