President Trump has sometimes summoned White House staffers to his private residence in the evening to change assignments given to them by chief of staff John Kelly — and then telling them not to let him know, a report said Sunday.

The president also sidesteps the order and discipline Kelly has tried to impose on the West Wing by bypassing the regular scheduling of phone calls between staff and advisers that gives Kelly control over the information Trump receives, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Friends of the president who make up an informal group of trusted advisers outside the White House have even turned to using first lady Melania Trump to get messages directly to the commander-in-chief.

“If I don’t want to wait 24 hours for a call from the president, getting to Melania is much easier,” one person said.

A spokeswoman for the first lady discounted the report as “fake news.”

“This is more fake news and these are more anonymous sources peddling things that just aren’t true. The first lady is focused on her own work in the East Wing,” the spokeswoman said.

The White House declined to comment.

Since being named chief of staff in July, Kelly has said his job isn’t to control the president but to bring a sense of order to the White House.

“I was not brought to this job to control anything but the flow of information to our president so that he can make the best decisions,” he said in an interview in October.

Kelly, a retired Marine general, has put an end to Trump’s friends having phone calls patched through to the Oval Office and now requires them to make an appointment.

He has also stopped White House aides from simply walking into the office to speak with the president about whatever’s on their minds.

But a Trump confidant says the president has developed “workarounds” to dodge Kelly’s rules, the newspaper reported.

“John has been successful at putting in place a stronger chain of command in the White House, requiring people to go through him to get to the Oval Office,” Leon Panetta, a White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton who knows Kelly, told the Wall Street Journal. “The problem has always been whether or not the president is going to accept better discipline in the way he operates. He’s been less successful at that.”

The report said Kelly running White House operations frees up Trump to concentrate on his agenda.

“This is all just inevitable,” a person close to Trump told the newspaper. “It’s not that Mr. Kelly is wrong — we all know he’s terribly competent.”

As for Trump’s tweets, Kelly has told staffers not to be influenced by them.

And the two men seem to have come to an understanding on the extent of their relationship.

“Kelly is too much of a general, and Trump is too much Trump,” a White House official told the newspaper, adding that the president holds his chief of staff in high regard.