A clown show of performative politics.

Typically, that’s the result when sanctimonious California city councils butt in to federal issues.

Exhibit A comes courtesy of the West Hollywood City Council.

The council recently purged Home Depot from the city’s list of approved vendors, for the alleged affront of assisting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Never mind that the home-improvement titan denies working with ICE. 

Never mind that Home Depot parking lots, where illegal-immigrant laborers have long congregated, are public spaces where anyone, ICE included, is free to tread.

Never mind all that. The council had a point to make. And in some, the compulsion is strong: Must. Virtue. Signal.

The reality is, there’s nothing Home Depot can do to block ICE from visiting the store’s parking lots — even if it were the store’s place to interfere with federal law enforcement.

Memo to the council: It’s neither the store’s place, nor yours, to adjudicate federal policy. 

We know this is obvious, but here goes: City councils have no purview over federal matters.

Members of the West Hollywood City Council are elected as nonpartisan custodians of city issues, and not as partisan arbiters of federal affairs.

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Part of the council’s job is to get the best deal for local taxpayers on provisions purchased by the city.

And here is where the council fails a second time on one issue. It’s overstepping by wading into federal-policy waters, yes. 

But also, by removing a low-price leader from the city’s approved vendor list — a list that saves money, per the city’s officials — council members stand to penalize their own taxpayers.

If Home Depot offers good products, relevant to city needs, at low prices, then it should be a go-to vendor, regardless of perceived politics.

Of course, this council has a history of clownish posturing.

In 2016, then-mayor/councilwoman Lindsey Horvath vowed that then-candidate Donald Trump, whom she accused of “hate speech,” would be denied a permit to hold a rally in West Hollywood.

Oh, please.

The theatrics were silly then, and they’re silly now.

The West Hollywood City Council would do well to focus on the job it was elected to handle, rather than posturing on federal issues it doesn’t control.

Let’s end the clown show now.