The war of words between Donald Trump and the grieving...

A Gold Star father who sparred with President Trump over the death of his Muslim son said the commander-in-chief has turned the controversy surrounding the deaths of four soldiers in Africa into a “political football” after his controversial condolence call.

Khizr Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan was killed while fighting in Iraq in 2004, said the four soldiers killed earlier this month in an ambush in Niger should be remembered as the “best of America.”

“They deserve utmost dignity and respect and privacy at this moment. That should have been quoted when this matter came to public. But that had not been done. It had been made political football,”​ he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Khan, who blasted Trump in a speech during the Democratic National Convention last July, also said White House Chief of Staff John Kelly “indulged in defending ​the ​behavior of the president and made the situation even worse​.​”

Kelly, a former Marine general whose son died in Afghanistan in 2010, appeared at a White House briefing last Thursday to say he was “stunned” that a Florida congresswoman would listen in on Trump’s condolence call to the family of Army Sgt. La David Johnson and then tell reporters the president’s comments were insensitive.

Khan said Kelly “should have refrained from doing exactly the same thing what he was complaining about.”

R​ep. Frederica Wilson said she overheard Trump’s call to ​Johnson’s widow Myeisha last week when he said her husband “knew what he was getting into.”

Trump has said Wilson, a Democrat, made up the claims and has spent days attacking her on Twitter.

“Wacky Congresswoman Wilson is the gift that keeps on giving for the Republican Party, a disaster for Dems. You watch her in action & vote R!,” he wrote on Sunday morning.

Khan last July slammed Trump’s campaign pledge to ban Muslims from entering the United States, ​saying “all faiths, genders and ethnicities” have fought and died for the country before concluding that the then-Republican presidential candidate “sacrificed nothing.”

In an interview several days later, Trump said he has made “sacrifices. I worked very, very hard. … I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures.”

Johnson, 25, and three other soldiers — Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, 35, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, 39, and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, 29 — ​were killed in an ambush Oct. 4 in Niger by militants possibly linked to the Islamic State.