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Donald Trump’s courageous response to the assassination attempt on him is reminiscent of how former President Ronald Reagan deftly responded after getting shot — and Americans will admire Trump for it, one of his pollsters predicts.

“I compare President Trump to President Ronald Reagan. You get historic respect for this. This is a historic moment in a historic campaign,” Trump campaign pollster John McLaughlin told The Post.

President Reagan, then 70, was shot March 30, 1981, by deranged gunman John Hinckley — a little more than two months into his first-term.

Showing grace under pressure, the former actor cracked jokes to show the country that he was OK.

“Honey, I forgot to duck,” Reagan reportedly told First Lady Nancy Reagan when she first saw him at the hospital.

Reagan, famously known as “The Gipper” for playing a gravely ill football player in the “Knute Rockne All American” film, even joked with the doctors who operated on him.

“Please tell me you’re all Republicans,” Reagan said.

He won enormous empathy and support from Americans over the shooting and his remarkable attitude afterward.

McLaughlin, who was a 25-year-old Reagan volunteer at the time, called the shooting of the 78-year-old Trump, “a bad flashback.

“You can’t take anything for granted,” the pollster said grimly.

The fact that Reagan recovered healthwise — and politically — wasn’t lost on McLaughlin, either.

“Reagan was shot. He survived and did well. He won re-election in a landslide,” he said.

The fact that Reagan recovered healthwise — and politically — wasn’t lost on McLaughlin, either.

Likewise, a bloodied Trump’s feisty response of pumping his fist in the air and telling supporters to “fight, fight” after getting shot while being whisked off the campaign rally stage by Secret Service agents will have a similar, lasting impact, the pollster said.

Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. — whose dad and uncle were assassinated in the 1960s — praised Trump’s “inspirational” response.

The harrowing and potentially tragic moment involving Trump encapsulated him, McLaughlin said.

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