Last week, Baltimore residents got another ringside seat to the temperament of Mayor Brandon Scott in his delivery of the annual State of the City address: He took gratuitous partisan swipes at President Donald Trump and treated his Democratic colleagues like extras in a Cecil B. DeMille cinematic extravaganza.

Mayor Scott slighted City Council President Zeke Cohen by asking freshman Councilman Paris Gray to introduce the council members and elected officials in attendance.

Councilman Gray overlooked supporters of Sheila Dixon in last year’s mayoral election: Sheriff Sam Cogen and State’s Attorney Ivan Bates. Haven’t we seen the divisive politics of revenge before?

The mayor again disrespected the traditional venue for the State of the City address, the council chambers, by taking his show on the road like a TED talk, holding the address at M&T Bank Exchange.

His pettiness continued by deriding former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s closure of recreation centers. That’s how Mr. Scott expresses gratitude for his mentors?

The mayor hogged credit for the downward trajectory of crime and ignored the more responsible public safety principals like the State’s Attorney’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office or the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Former U.S. Attorney Erek Barron helped secure hundreds of gun convictions and took many of the violent offenders off city streets. Gov. Wes Moore has also been a crime-fighting partner.

But as Alice Roosevelt said of her father, the mayor wants to be “the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.”

A dog does not bite the hand that feeds it. Mayor Scott, in contrast, insulted President Donald Trump, who holds the purse strings for federal funds desperately needed by Baltimore as it confronts an $85 million deficit. That was not only childish but financially inane.

Can’t the mayor do better?

Armstrong Williams (www.armstrongwilliams.com; @arightside) is a political analyst, syndicated columnist and owner of the broadcasting company, Howard Stirk Holdings. He is also part owner of The Baltimore Sun.