Donald Trump will not testify at his hush money criminal trial after all.

The former president’s lawyers ended their defense case Tuesday after their sole consequential witness, Trump-allied lawyer Bob Costello, stepped down from the stand — but the historic hush money case won’t be in the hands of jurors until next week.

“Your honor, the defense rests,” Trump attorney Todd Blanche said in Manhattan Supreme Court as the ex-president sat next to him leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed.

The jury of 12 Manhattanites will be getting some extra time off ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, with deliberations not expected to start until next Wednesday at the earliest in the trial accusing Trump, 77, of of fudging business records to cover up a payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels to hide a sex scandal from voters ahead of the 2016 election.

Trump as recently as last month had vowed he would “absolutely” take the stand.

“I’m testifying,” he proclaimed to reporters in Florida on April 12, adding, “I mean, all I can do is tell the truth.”

His decision not to take the stand after all comes a day after his personal lawyer Alina Habba, who as an attorney handles civil cases but not criminal ones, claimed in an interview with Fox News that Trump “wanted” to testify.

“He’s absolutely ready to tell the truth,” Habba said.

Justice Juan Merchan had ruled that if Trump were to take the stand, prosecutors could have grilled him about his litany of recent court losses, including his New York civil fraud case, in which he was ordered to pay nearly half a billion dollars for inflating the value of his assets, and the $83 million judgement against him for repeatedly defaming advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. Trump has pending appeals in both of those cases.

After the defense rested, the judge sent the jury home for a week and scheduled closing arguments in the case for next Tuesday, May 28, after the Memorial Day holiday.

Trump was back in court at 2:15 p.m. for what’s known as a “charging conference,” where both sides hash out what instructions jurors will receive before they begin deliberations.

“I feel very good. I think we’ve had a great case we’ve put on,” Trump told reporters before going back into the courtroom.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger took aim at Costello’s credibility while cross-examining him earlier in the day Tuesday.

Costello denied telling convicted liar Michael Cohen — the prosecution’s star witness —  in 2018 that he would set up a “backchannel” between him and then-President Trump.

But jurors saw an email in which Costello mentioned setting up such a “backchannel.”

“The email speaks for itself, does it not?” Hoffinger said.

Costello responded “no” and claimed that he would be “delighted” to provide more “circumstances” if allowed to speak further.

“That’s all right, let’s move on,” Hoffinger quipped, drawing some chuckles in the courthouse gallery. 

Costello maintained that his “obligation” in 2018 was solely to Cohen, who at the time was being investigated by the feds for campaign finance crimes based on the Daniels payoff, and other misdeeds.

Yet jurors saw emails in which Costello ripped Cohen as “totally nuts” and an “a–hole” while messaging his law partner.

Costello was shown an email from June 22, 2018, to Jeffrey Citron, a partner at his firm, to which the attorney attached a text message response from Cohen that day before ripping into Trump’s fixer.

“Finished document review and then met with counsel. Arrived home at 8:30 and just took wife to get dinner,” the text from Cohen read in the email.

Costello then wrote in the body of the email: “Tune into CNN and see how they are playing this up. Cohen has to know this yet he continues to slow play us and the President – is he totally nuts???”

“I am in a golf tournament tomorrow early and again on Sunday. What should I say to this a–hole? He is playing with the most powerful man on the planet.”

When Hoffinger observed that the “email certainly speaks for itself,” Costello responded, “Yes, it does.”

Costello also insisted that he has no animosity toward Cohen, and wasn’t trying to intimidate him when he slammed both Cohen and the case before a House committee last week.

“I don’t have animosity,” he claimed, adding, “I don’t think Michael Cohen is telling the truth.”

Trump arrived to court trailed by an entourage that included, for the first time, his son Donald Trump Jr. 

In comments in the courthouse hallway, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee raged that he was being tried in a “kangaroo court.”

He also repeated his oft-made claim that the courtroom was so cold that it was an “ice box” — despite reporters in the room noting that the temperature was actually quite warm.

“It’s not that I like this, sitting in an icebox for seven, eight, nine hours … but the country needs it,” Trump said.