NFL team owners privately laid into President Trump for his attacks on players “taking a knee” during an extraordinary summit with league athletes and executives in October, according to a new report.

“The problem we have is, we have a president who will use [the kneeling] as fodder to do his mission that I don’t feel is in the best interests of America,” said New England Patriots owner and longtime Trump supporter Robert Kraft, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by the New York Times.

“It’s divisive and it’s horrible.”

The crisis conference was supposed to be “confidential,” leading many coaches to make some extremely candid comments.

Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross suggested players and team owners “march on Washington” while Philadelphia Eagles honcho Jeffrey Lurie described Trump’s presidency as “disastrous,” according to the paper.

“We’ve got to be careful not to be baited by Trump or whomever else,” Lurie said. “We have to find a way to not be divided and not get baited.”

The meeting came the month after the president called for the growing number of players protesting police violence against African Americans by kneeling during the national anthem — following the lead of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — to be fired.

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a b—ch off the field right now, out, he’s fired! He’s fired!’” Trump said during a Sept. 22 rally.

A few days later, more than 200 players knelt during the anthem — as Trump continued his attacks on Twitter.

Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula was worried Trump would continue his assault on the league if it didn’t come up with some sort of plan.

“All Donald needs to do is to start to do this again,” Pegula said, per the Times. “We need some kind of immediate plan because of what’s going on in society. All of us now, we need to put a Band-Aid on what’s going on in the country.”

Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan — who donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration but later publicly denounced his “divisive and contentious remarks” — said he didn’t think things would get worse.

“All the damage Trump’s going to do is done,” he said.

Players, meanwhile, kept pressing their bosses to explain why Kaepernick was being blacklisted from the league.

“I feel like he was hung out to dry,” 49ers safety Eric Reid said.

“Everyone in here is talking about how much they support us … Nobody stepped up and said we support Colin’s right to do this. We all let him become Public Enemy No. 1 in this country, and he still doesn’t have a job.”

But the owners were more interested in damage control, the Times reports.