Bam to Joe: I’d love you to honor Dolly

Forget pardons — Barack Obama wants to see a presidential Parton.

The 44th president appeared on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” where he confessed that not giving singer Dolly Parton the Presidential Medal of Freedom was an oversight during his presidency. He would like to see the president-elect get it right.

“How does Dolly Parton not have a Presidential Medal of Freedom?” Colbert asked during a segment he called “Questions We’re Pretty Sure Barack Obama Has Never Been Asked Before.”

Obama, promoting his memoir “A Promised Land,” offered a mea culpa.

“That’s a mistake,” he admitted. “That was a screwup. I’m surprised. I think I assumed that she had already got one, and that was incorrect.”

In addition to being a worldfamous singer and actor, the 74-year-old Tennessee native donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, aiding research for the Moderna COVID-19, vaccine, which could help end the pandemic next year after President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Obama, who is Biden’s former boss, said he might call his old pal to lobby for a medal for Parton (inset).

“She deserves one,” Obama said. “I’ll call Biden.”

Colbert, who also assumed that Parton was a medal winner, replied, “Do it.”

Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients include the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., virologist Jonas Salk, newsman Walter Cronkite, comedian Lucille Ball and basketball star Michael Jordan. President Trump, who has until Jan. 20 to bestow that honor upon civilians, made ailing conspiracy theorist Rush Limbaugh a Medal of Freedom recipient this year.

It is the highest honor a president can award a civilian.

Parton’s accolades so far include 11 Grammy Awards, one of which is a Lifetime Achievement recognition.

“The more I accomplish, the more humble I become, because I realize how few people are able to say that they’ve seen their dreams come true,” Parton wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.