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Donald Trump is suddenly very popular, but the “kitchen cabinet” that will be hanging out with him and First Lady Melania in the White House is made up of longtime friends, mostly from New York.

Three power couples — real-estate developer Richard LeFrak and wife Karen, former MTA chairman Peter Kalikow and wife Mary, and ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and wife Judith — form the core of Trump’s inner circle.

Douglas Elliman chairman Howard Lorber and Suffolk County Republican Committee chairman John Jay LaValle are also pals. And carpet king John Stark has played so many rounds with Trump, friends joke he will be named Secretary of Golf.

The Trumps will have another set of friends at their winter White House, Mar-a-Lago — Trump’s private $100,000-to-join club in Palm Beach, Fla.

Marjorie Merriweather Post is spinning happily in her grave because she willed her estate to the federal government to be used as a presidential retreat, but Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan felt it was too ostentatious.

Trump bought the “white elephant” in 1985, and now Post’s dream will come true.

Trump’s buddies at Mar-a-Lago include Scranton, Pa., orthodontist Albert Hazzouri, Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter and former Calvin Klein divisional owner Lee Lipton.

Club members also include Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax — the first online media outlet to tout Trump for president back in 2012 — and Toni Kramer, who founded the Trumpettes, a group of women supporters.

Chicago socialite Sugar Rautbord, who hosted a fund-raiser for Trump with former Fruit of the Loom CEO Bill Farley, has already booked her trip to DC for the inauguration.