WASHINGTON — President Trump ended two days of guessing Thursday by saying that Iran had gifted him 10 “big boats” of oil in a show of goodwill.

“They said, ‘To show you the fact that we’re real and solid and we’re there, we’re going to let you have eight boats of oil — eight boats, eight big boats of oil.’ … and I didn’t think much about it,” Trump said at a cabinet meeting.

“And then I watched the news, and they said … ‘There are eight boats that are going right up the middle of the Hormuz Strait, eight big tankers are going loaded up with oil right through,'” he went on.

“And I said, ‘Well, I guess they were right, and they were real, and I think they were Pakistani-flagged.’

“And I said, ‘Well, I guess we’re dealing with the right people.’ And actually, they then apologized for something they said,” the president continued. “And they said, ‘We’re going to send two more boats,’ and it ended up being 10 boats.”

Trump set off a frenzy of speculation Tuesday when he told reporters that he had received “a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money” from Iran, which officials refused to identify, citing the sensitivity of ongoing peace talks.

After his big reveal Thursday, the president jokingly told special envoy Steve Witkoff, who was seated nearby: “I hope I haven’t screwed up your negotiations.”

Pakistan is serving as a mediator in the four-week-old conflict and Trump used the anecdote to bolster his claim that Iran is privately “begging” for peace after 27 days of heavy bombardment — despite public statements from Tehran to the contrary.

“We estimated it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission. And we’re way ahead of schedule,” Trump claimed separately.

“The reason they want to make a deal is they have been just beat to s–t.”

US officials transmitted a 15-point peace proposal to Iran earlier this week, which included demands that the theocracy shut down its nuclear program.

Iranian officials publicly denounced the blueprint and instead demanded reparations from the US and an affirmation of the nation’s control of the crucial Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global oil exports flow.

Although Trump said 10 Pakistan-flagged tankers had traversed the strait this week, the names of the vessels, their destinations and the disposition of their oil were not immediately clear.

Iran on Tuesday blocked passage for a Pakistan-bound cargo ship flagged in St. Kitts, citing its “lack of permission to pass.”

Tehran said Sunday it would ease its grip on the strait and allow ships from “non-hostile” nations, defined as those that “neither participate nor support acts of aggression against Iran” by the US and Israel. 

Witkoff, who is leading peace efforts alongside Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, said at the cabinet meeting that there have been “multiple reach-outs from the region and others who want to play a role in ending this conflict peacefully.”