Is it too much to ask that post-America's largest city not have a relentlessly shameful mayor?

Is there a level on which this is not disgusting?

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday skipped an NYPD swearing-in ceremony, made especially poignant by this week’s assassination-style murder of a female police officer in the Bronx, so he could attend an anti-Trump protest in Germany.

According to the New York Post, de Blasio was too busy preparing for his surprise trip to Germany where he plans to join leftist protesters at the G-20 summit on Saturday.

Hizzoner’s overseas jaunt was kept under wraps until just 90 minutes before he took off from Newark Airport. A last-minute announcement said he “will attend several events surrounding the G-20 Summit, including Saturday’s Hamburg Zeigt Haltung rally.”

The Marxist mayor is scheduled to take part in a rally and will return to New York City Sunday.

And, for those who think this kind of thing is important, consider the carbon footprint he left flying over there to act like a spoiled brat.

Philly cops union insulted by lineup of Freedom-Hater convention speakers

Not feelin' the brotherly love in Philly:

Philadelphia's police union issued a scathing rebuke of Hillary Clinton for including relatives of victims of police shootings at the Democratic National Convention but no relatives of slain police officers.

Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 said in a statement that it was "insulted by the exclusion of police widows and family members" as speakers at the convention, from Monday to next Thursday.

"It is sad that to win an election Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts, while the men and women they seek to destroy are outside protecting the political institutions of this country," the statement read. "Mrs. Clinton you should be ashamed of yourself if that is possible."

The statement came days after the Clinton campaign announced that former President Bill Clinton would speak Tuesday night along with members of Mothers of the Movement, a group that includes Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown.
Clinton's campaign responded Wednesday, noting that two members of law enforcement are scheduled to speak at the convention, including former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey.

"As Hillary Clinton has said, we need to support heroic police officers who put their lives on the line every day as well as listen to the voices of mothers who have lost their children," said Stephanie Formas, Pennsylvania communications director for Hillary for America. 

Reached by phone, FOP vice president Roosevelt Poplar said the union felt the speaker list was "a slap in the face to our men and women and their families, who were victimized by the same type of violence, especially in the past weeks when we've had eight officers assassinated."

While the police union is obviously in the right here, surely they didn't expect a gaggle of Alinskyites to seek its sign-off on their lineup of revolutionaries.