President Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the Pentagon’s Afghanistan strategy and has shown interest in a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize the war, NBC News reported Friday.

Prince’s plan first came up last year during the commander-in-chief’s strategy review on the Afghan War, now in its 17th year with no end in sight.

He envisions replacing troops with private military contractors who would work for a US envoy for the war who would report to the president, the network reported.

“I know he’s frustrated. He gave the Pentagon what they wanted. And they haven’t delivered,” said Prince, whose sister is Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Trump’s national security team was reportedly aghast at the idea.

But Prince told NBC he believed Trump advisers who opposed the plan were presenting the president with “as rosy a picture as they can” of the war, including that “peace is around the corner” with recent US efforts for peace talks with the Taliban.

A spokesman for the National Security Council threw cold water on the idea.

“No such proposal from Erik Prince is under consideration,” the spokesman told the network.

“The president, like most Americans, would like to see more progress in Afghanistan. However, he also recognizes that withdrawing precipitously from Afghanistan would lead to the re-emergence of terrorist safe havens, putting American national security and lives in danger.”

And a senior State Department official said there’s “not a chance” it will be adopted.