In 2017 post-America, even the complete devastation of Puerto Rico has to get politicized

You want to knock their heads together and yell, "Grow up!"

There's a strong case to be made for giving San Juan mayor Yulin Cruz the benefit of the doubt regarding her rant the other day. She's up to her eyeballs in crises. You could even cut her some slack knowing her politics and ideological leanings. In the 2016 presidential race, she supported Clinton for a while and then switched to the Sanders camp, so she's never been a fan of the guy who won.

But more facts are coming to light. The pallets of supplies behind her in her rant aren't getting to the places that need them because of a lack of truck drivers. That's her issue to deal with. Then we discover that FEMA has invited her to its base of operations in Puerto Rico several times and she has not responded.

The mayor of nearby Guaynabo says he and other mayors are participating in FEMA briefings.

So it seems pretty clear she's grandstanding, and exacerbating her constituents' suffering in the process.

But it was wrong for Trump to take the bait and go on his Twitter tirade yesterday morning.

His thin skin and pettiness were on full display. His front-and-center concern expressed in his tweets, that she had been praising his efforts and then turned abruptly and attacked him, could not have been more ill-timed.

It's pretty pathetic that two of the most public faces of the response to what Maria did to Puerto Rico are behaving like badly brought-up seventh graders, and giving their equally juvenile political bases fodder for their self-righteous poses as well.

But that's how brittle, how arid, how devoid of graciousness and humility the societal climate is in post-America now.

To the extent there are any heroes in this story, we're not hearing about them because they're busy digging through rubble, handing out water bottles and first-aid kits and clearing downed power lines to preen before a drama-hungry public.