President-elect Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino revealed Friday that former Rep. Mike Rogers was out of the running to be FBI director.

Rogers, 61, was rumored to have been on the shortlist to become head of the bureau — but Scavino said Trump threw cold water on the prospect when asked about the ex-Michigan Republican lawmaker’s standing.

“Just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI. It’s not happening — In his own words, ‘I have never even given it a thought.’ Not happening,” Scavino wrote on X.

A source close to the transition process separately confirmed to The Post that Rogers was no longer in the running to oversee the bureau.

Trump, 78, had planned if re-elected to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom the 45th president picked for the job in August 2017, after investigators raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 to recover national security documents the former president had stashed after leaving office in January 2021.

Rogers had been one of the frontrunners for the FBI post, with former bureau deputy director Andrew McCabe telling CNN Thursday that Rogers would be a “totally reasonable, logical selection” given his chairmanship of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2011 to 2015.

Rogers rejected McCabe’s nod in a post to X on Friday, writing that his statements on CNN were “FAKE NEWS,” and that he would “completely and TOTALLY REJECT [McCabe’s] endorsement.”

“McCabe abused FISA to spy on Americans and perpetuated the fake Steele Dossier,” Rogers wrote, referencing McCabe’s actions that led to fallout with Trump in 2018. “McCabe represents all the political FBI lawyers who wrongly politicized and weaponized the FBI. IT’S DISGRACEFUL AND UN-AMERICAN.”

With Rogers out of the picture, several contenders remain, including attorney, national security expert and MAGA favorite Kash Patel.

The New York native is known for his deep loyalty to Trump, serving in the president-elect’s first administration as a National Security Council official, senior adviser to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and later, chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense.

McCabe — who locked horns with Trump over the FBI’s Trump-Russia collusion probe and was fired as acting director of the bureau for leaking sensitive case information to a journalist — cautioned against Patel Thursday, telling CNN that “no part of the FBI’s mission is safe with Kash Patel in any position of leadership in the FBI.”

While left-leaning media outlets have suggested Patel may struggle with confirmation in the Senate, some congressional insiders say his credentials within the Justice Department and national security realm make him a strong contender — and that shaking up the FBI “might not be a bad thing.”

Other names discussed for the position include former St. Louis US Attorney Jeffrey Jensen, who was appointed by Trump in 2017 and served until 2020. 

Jensen also spent 10 years as an FBI agent, serving from 1989 to 1999.

Former Utah congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz has also been rumored to be in the running, along with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, multiple sources have told The Post.

Chaffetz, who left Congress in 2017, once chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — leading investigations into the Secret Service, Department of Education, Drug Enforcement Agency, Office of Personnel Management and other federal agencies.

Bailey, who describes himself as a “constitutional conservative,” was a favorite among some of Trump’s most influential advisers for the attorney general position, two sources told The Post. 

But when that post briefly went to former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) — and later to ex-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi — there was some discussion about putting Bailey up for the FBI job.