Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has given Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy a big thumbs up, saying there was “no doubt” the GOP nominee would be a strong leader.

The Egyptian president, who as head of the armed forces led the coup that booted President Mohamed Morsi from office in 2013, also said Trump’s campaign bluster does not necessarily reflect how he would govern.

“It’s also important to know that during election campaigns, many statements are made and many things are said, however, afterwards governing the country would be something different. And will be subject to many factors,” Sisi, 61, said during an interview on CNN to be aired Wednesday night.

And he refused to take the bait when the network’s Erin Burnett asked him about the billionaire real estate developer’s criticism of Muslims and vow to ban immigrants from Muslim countries — a stance he later softened.

“I don’t want to be unfair to anyone here. During election campaigns, there is a perception based on a certain vision and a point of view. Then that vision or point of view gets corrected and develops as a result of experience, reports and advice from experts,” Sisi said.

The US, he added, already had “very strict security measures for everyone who wishes to visit it which has [sic] been in place for quite a few years.”

Trump had described “his high regard for peace-loving Muslims” during a meeting Monday night with Sisi in New York, the Trump campaign had said.

The sitdown focused on political, military and economic cooperation between the US and Egypt, according to a statement on the meeting released by his campaign.

“Mr. Trump expressed to President Sisi his strong support for Egypt’s war on terrorism, and how under a Trump Administration, the United States of America will be a loyal friend, not simply an ally, that Egypt can count on in the days and years ahead,” the statement said.

Sisi also met separately with Hillary Clinton and diplomatically said she also would make a good commander in chief.

“Political parties in the United States would not allow candidates to reach that level unless they are qualified to lead a country the size of the United States of America,” Sisi replied.

Asked about Clinton’s comments calling his administration an “army dictatorship,” the Egyptian leader was equivocal.

“I will answer this question in two ways. I believe that that statement was not made after our most recent meeting between myself and Mrs. Clinton,” Sisi said.

“But also in Egypt there will not be a chance for any dictatorship because in Egypt there is a constitution, there is law, and there the will of the people which will refuse to allow any leader to stay in his position for any period longer than his term which is four years.”

As chief of the Egyptian armed forces, Sisi led the coup that forced Morsi out after the June 2013 Egyptian protests.

Sisi then installed an interim government, while remaining the country’s minister of defense.

In March 2014, he resigned and announced that he would run as a candidate for president in the 2014 elections.

Only one other candidate ran against him, and the election was boycotted by most of Egypt’s political parties as well as Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood.

Sisi won with about 93 percent of the vote.