Gov. Maura Healey and the people of Massachusetts would be better off if she met with Donald Trump last week rather than Joe Biden.

Ditto Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

They were at the White House along with other Massachusetts politicians to attend the ceremony honoring the Boston Celtics for the team’s 2024 NBA Championship win.

Biden, who will be gone shortly, can’t do much for either fellow progressive Democrat, nor the people they represent, but Trump can, if he is willing to do so upon assuming office Jan. 20.

While Trump is expected to shut down the border, restore construction of the border wall and open the Keystone XL pipeline on Day One of his administration, the pipeline of federal funds for Massachusetts is another matter.

Do not be surprised if that pipeline gets clogged.

The man they called Hitler and a fascist and a threat to democracy is the new president, and he has a memory. He remembers that Healey, as attorney general, for instance, sued him nearly 100 times and bragged about it.

Wu is boasting how Boston will not cooperate with Trump’s plans to deport criminal illegal immigrants.

This is not to say that the pair should go groveling to Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the way “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC did when they met with him.

They savaged Trump for years and watching their viewership disappear. Now in a bid to staunch the bleeding — as well as to save their jobs — the pair sought to “restart communications” with the returning president. Instead, they got mocked for being the hypocrites that they are.

But it would not hurt if Healey and Wu, among other Trump haters, including the state’s Democrat Congressional delegation, made some sort of accommodation with Trump.

It is probably too late now, but to shut the door in Trump’s face may not have been the best political strategy. Their constituents in the end will pay for them placing loyalty to their party over the well-being of the people they represent.

They would not have needed to invite Trump to a Martha’s Vineyard Thanksgiving Day dinner and served him a Big Mac, (Biden is in Nantucket today) but at least they could have lessened their attacks on Trump over his plan to deport criminal illegal immigrants.

It is going to happen, despite Healey and Wu.

People in Massachusetts will soon realize that people will be hurt because neither Healey nor Wu — let alone any members of the state’s Democratic Congressional delegation — have a relationship with Trump.

On the contrary, they have attacked and alienated him for years.

This includes Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Eddie Markey and all nine Massachusetts members of the U.S. House, all Democrats.

None of them have access to Trump.

It means that the state has no go-to person to make its case to Trump for federal funding for various projects like the $4.2 billion for two new Cape Cod bridges, the $2.5 billion the state owes in misspent pandemic funds, funds for offshore wind projects, education or reimbursement for millions spent on illegal immigrants. Or anything else.

Gov. Healey can open all the Washington offices she wants, but it is not going to do any good. She can’t take back her lawsuits. She can’t take back her words. Nor can Markey or Warren.

Now they are all out in the cold.

So, with the array of Massachusetts progressive Democratic politicians out to lunch in a Trump administration, watch for who Trump will name to be his main contact person in the state.

It will be none of them for sure, nor will it be a Republican holding statewide office or a Congressional seat because there aren’t any.

That point person could be former Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson, a longtime Trump supporter and head of the Trump campaign in Massachusetts.

It could also be Jim Lyons, the former chair of the Republican State Committee, another veteran Trump activist.

But most likely the person calling the shots one way or another will be Lowell native Corey Lewandowski, a key Trump advisor who knows Massachusetts politics inside out.

That Republican, whoever he or she is, will have more influence over the disbursement of federal funds and federal patronage in Massachusetts than Healey, Wu, and all the Democrats put together. Count on it.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com