It is April Fools’ Day, but Robert Kraft wasn’t joking around when announcing the newest addition to the Patriots Hall of Fame — saying he personally asked Bill Parcells to join the exclusive club, despite the well-documented beef between the two.

Kraft informed reporters of his decision while out at the annual league meeting in Florida on Tuesday … revealing the Big Tuna will formally go into the team’s HOF later this year.

“In the early 1990s, the Patriots were in disarray,” Kraft said in a statement after making the announcement. “But the hiring of Bill Parcells in 1993, a two-time Super Bowl Champion, brought instant credibility to the franchise. We had never had a head coach with his credentials.”

The coach was looking for personnel control over the roster … which he never got. During the Apple TV show “The Dynasty: New England Patriots,” he said Kraft was giving roster construction roles to “incompetent” people.

“We finally got some success, but I felt like Kraft wasn’t always in line with the things that I knew to be in the best interest of building a team,” he said. “Kraft had no real background in football, and in his inexperience, took the draft away from me and he gave it to somebody else.”

Kraft, meanwhile, added, “With Coach Parcells, I didn’t feel he always put the team first. He was making decisions that were best for Bill Parcells, as opposed [to] for the New England Patriots.”