Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out against the “fake news” after a reporter questioned the president on his differing explanations for why he ended his friendship with the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Last week, the Trump administration said the president banned Epstein from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club because Epstein was a “creep.”

But Monday, Trump said the falling out occurred because Epstein poached Mar-a-Lago employees.

After an NBC reporter aboard Air Force One asked Trump to explain the two rationales, the president grew angry.

Trump claimed both explanations were “the same thing, sort of. A little bit of the same thing.

“He took people from that worked for me, and I told him, ‘don’t do it anymore.’ And he did it. And I said, ‘stay the hell out of here,’” Trump said.

When the reporter asked if that was what was meant when an administration spokesperson said Epstein was a “creep,” Trump asked the reporter who she was working for.

“NBC — fake news,” Trump told her. “NBC is one of the worst.”

Trump told another reporter that some of the workers from the Mar-a-Lago spa taken by Epstein were young women.

“People would complain this guy was taking people from the spa. I didn’t know that,” Trump said.

“When I heard about it I told him, I said, ‘listen, we don’t want you taking our people.’ And he was fine and then not too long after that he did it again and I said, ‘out of here.’”

Trump was asked if one of the poached young women was Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein victim-turned-child sex trafficking activist who died by suicide in April.

“I think so. I think that was one of the people,” Trump said. “He stole her.”

Trump has been dogged by the Epstein case since July 6, when the Department of Justice and the FBI issued a joint memo saying there was “no incriminating ‘client list’” and “no credible evidence” that Epstein blackmailed co-conspirators who sexually abused underaged girls provided by him, Axios first reported.

The memo contradicted Attorney General Pam Bondi’s claim in a February interview with Fox News that the client list was on her desk.

Some of the president’s staunchest backers turned on him over the memo’s release, angering them after posting to Truth Social that they should ignore the Epstein files.