Prez mocks Dems’ caged-kids blunder

President Trump taunted Democrats on Tuesday for mistakenly sharing photos of immigrant children being held in cages at detention centers during the Obama administration, saying they were trying to make his White House “look bad.”

“Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages. They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

He also called on Democratic lawmakers to work with their Republican colleagues on building a wall and increasing security at the Mexican border.

“Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country . . . Bipartisan Bill!” he said.

The photos of the youngsters lying on mats inside a wire cage began appearing online over the weekend after reports claimed that the federal government “lost track” of nearly 1,500 immi- grant children at the end of 2017.

The photos originally appeared in the Arizona Republic in 2014 — during former President Barack Obama’s second term — but many online posters blamed the Trump administration for holding the children in cages.

They cited Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement earlier this month that the administration was changing its policy about people illegally entering the United States, in which he said children would be separated from their parents.

Late Monday, Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan issued a statement saying the claims about lost children were “completely false” and that the kids’ host families had simply not responded to a survey.

“These children are not ‘lost’; their sponsors — who are usually parents or family members and in all cases have been vetted for criminality and ability to provide for them — simply did not respond or could not be reached when this voluntary call was made,” Hargan said.