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Meet the most well-protected homeless man in the city.

The vagabond camped out in front of Donald Trump Jr.’s Upper East Side apartment building Sunday morning — right under the noses of three Secret Service agents protecting President Trump’s eldest son.

The Post found the vagrant tucked inside a sleeping bag about 60 yards from the entrance to the Sovereign high-rise at 465 E. 58th St., where Trump Jr. lives in a $1.5 million, 12th-floor apartment.

The man was snoozing away under some scaffolding, with black construction netting hiding him from view of the federal security detail down the block.

One of the agents — who were staked out in a pair of black Dodge Caravan minivans and a black Chevy Suburban SUV — was surprised to learn about the urban camper.

“There’s a homeless guy up there?” the agent said.

“Is he in a wheelchair? If it’s the guy with the wheelchair, he’s a staple around here. He comes up the block talking to himself, begging for money. He’s a staple.”

The agent said the disabled panhandler wasn’t considered a threat to Trump’s namesake eldest son.

The homeless person spotted sleeping by Donald Trump Jr.’s apartment buildingJohn RocaThe homeless person spotted sleeping by Donald Trump Jr.’s apartment buildingJohn Roca

“Nah, we’re not worried about him,” he said.

But the man bundled up in the mummy-style Marmot sleeping bag — atop a pricey, self-inflating Therm-a-Rest air mattress — proved himself completely able-bodied when he woke up and walked away around 1 p.m.

“I crash here from time to time,” he said.

“I put up displays for events and I worked last night until 6 a.m. and needed a place to crash. This is a good place.”

The gray-bearded man, who wore a tie-dyed hoodie and carried a smart phone, declined to identify himself or answer additional questions.

A woman who lives in the building was outraged by the city’s unrelenting homeless crisis.

“In the summer, there’s more — three or four of them living up there,” she said.

“We call the city, but nothing happens. They come right back after the cops roust them.”

Sunday’s incident came two weeks after The Post watched two cops walk past a group of homeless people camped out under some Times Square scaffolding they were using as a clothesline.

City Hall said their jumble of blankets and cardboard wasn’t bad enough for a clean-up, but the NYPD kicked them out a short time later.

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