Prez booed in his hometown return

HUNDREDS OF spirited protesters clogged Manhattan’s West Side Thursday to try to spoil President Trump’s homecoming with noisy chants challenging White House policy on everything from immigration to health care.

Shouting “Not My President,” and carrying banners that said “Dump Trump” and “Make America THINK Again,” demonstrators sent the message that, despite growing up here and having his name on buildings throughout the city, the President is no longer welcome in Gotham.

“As a lifelong New Yorker, I think there’s something particularly appalling about Trump coming from this environment and just not representing New Yorkers in any way whatsoever,” said Lauren Rothman, 31, a food and drink writer from Brooklyn.

“New York is an immigrant town. New York is a melting pot, and the policies that he represents don’t represent New Yorkers. I think he should know that we don’t like him and that he has no home here.”

The commander-in-chief had not even set foot on Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for the first leg of his trip to New York when protesters began assembling across the street at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, where the President spoke Thursday night.

By the time a tuxedo-clad Trump, joined by daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, were whisked up the West Side Highway to the decommissioned aircraft carrier, hundreds packed the pens along the roadway. Protesters waved signs and booed his motorcade as it arrived at the floating museum on the Hudson around 7 p.m.

Once aboard, Trump met with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Thick crowds also gathered near Trump Tower, the President’s home and business headquarters.

A small group of Trump supporters — who were kept in a pen — chanted “U.S.A.” and “You lost,” to the protesting crowd.

Earlier in the day, demonstrators hung a “#NOTRUMPNYC” banner from a deck of the Staten Island Ferry.

Trump spent the hours before his Big Apple visit taking a White House victory lap over the House passage of a controversial bill to replace Obamacare. Trump was scheduled to arrive earlier in New York, but his trip was delayed by the narrow House vote.

“It’s a very good bill right now, the premiums are going to come down very substantially, the deductibles are going to come down,” said Trump in a press conference with Turnbull. “It’s going to be fantastic health care. Right now, Obamacare is failing.”

But a moment later the President appeared to make a major gaffe — praising Australia’s taxpayer-funded universal health care system.