WALL OF CONFUSION

Prez contradicts self within hours on Dreamer deal

President Trump on Thursday made conflicting statements regarding his key campaign promise to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Trump initially said there would be no citizenship or amnesty for the 800,000 “Dreamers” now living in the United States unless the wall goes up.

“At some point, [Democrats] cannot obstruct the wall. To me, it is vital. If I don’t get the wall, then we will become the obstructionist,” Trump said.

“We have to have an understanding that whether it’s in the budget or some other vehicle, in a fairly short period of time, the wall will be funded. Otherwise we’re not doing any deal,” he added in a warning to Democrats that the GOP would not cut any deals on the Dreamers — young, undocumented immigrants — until the wall is funded.

But Trump later told reporters outside the White House, “The wall will come later,” adding that he was “fairly close” to a deal with Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer and top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

The president also said of those protected from deportation by DACA, “We’re not looking at citizenship or amnesty. We’re looking at allowing people to stay here. We’re talking about taking care of people, people that were brought here, people that have done a good job and were not brought here of their own volition.”

Trump’s comments came during a day when he and other GOP officials offered varying versions of what resulted from the president’s Wednesday dinner at the White House with Schumer and Pelosi.

Trump and his press secretary tweeted that no deal had been reached on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — contradicting a statement from the two Democrats who said they had agreed on extending the protections without wall funding.

Schumer and Pelosi’s statement of a deal on DACA ignited a firestorm among immigration hard-liners.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told CNN that Trump seemed more interested in keeping Hillary Clinton’s campaign promises than his own.

Schumer, meanwhile, mocked Trump’s insistence on a border wall — calling it “a ‘ Game of Thrones’ idea for a world that is a lot closer to ‘Star Wars.’ ”

“We Democrats are for border security,” he said. “We’ll never be for the wall.”