A small crowd of people are practically tripping over each other to be the next national security adviser — because “it’s a lot of fun to work with Donald Trump,” the president boasted of himself on Thursday night.

“We have 15 candidates,” Trump told reporters of the race to become his fourth national security adviser.

“Everybody wants it badly, as you can imagine. And we’ll probably next week, sometime, make that decision,” he said of the post suddenly vacated by John Bolton on Tuesday.

“It’s a great job,” the president added.

“It’s great because it’s a lot of fun to work with Donald Trump … You know why it’s easy? Because I make all the decisions. ”

Earlier Thursday Trump pushed back against commentary that the notoriously bellicose Bolton had earned the president’s ire by being too much of a hawk.

“In fact, my views on Venezuela, and especially Cuba, were far stronger than those of John Bolton. He was holding me back!” the commander-in-chief tweeted.