Trump won’t release his NDAs. That’s secrecy in the service of secrecy.

IT WAS one thing for Donald Trump, the businessman, to require employees, investors, ex-wives and adult-film stars to sign nondisclosure agreements. As distasteful as those agreements may have been, he was exercising the legal rights of a private citizen. It is an entirely different — and completely unacceptable — matter for Donald Trump, the president, to think he can similarly gag White House staff.

.. Mr. Trump’s demand for signed confidentiality agreements, The Post’s Ruth Marcus reported in revealing their existence, was prompted by his fury over embarrassing leaks early in his administration. The New York Times subsequently reported that White House Counsel Donald McGahn had cautioned that threatening penalties for those revealing secrets was illegal and unenforceable, but — mainly to placate the president — eventually drew up a broad document barring officials from revealing what they heard and saw at work.

.. The White House has refused to release a copy of the document or answer our questions. Among them: How many officials signed nondisclosure agreements? Over what period of time? Do they give Mr. Trump a personal right of action after the end of his presidency? Are there exceptions for congressional testimony?

.. The fact that this administration was, until recently, all too willing to let people without appropriate security clearance be privy to top-secret materials makes the push for these newly disclosed and unprecedented nondisclosure agreements all the more suspect. The main motivator appears to be the president’s ego and not the national interest.

.. So perhaps the government accountability committees in Congress could stir themselves and demand to see a copy of the agreement.