Memo to Maura:

Pick up the phone. Call the White House.

Instead of constantly complaining about cuts of billions in federal aid and assistance to the state, do something about it.

Call and set up an appointment to meet with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss the cuts and make the case for Massachusetts. That’s your job.

You can do it. He meets with everybody, from Kid Rock and Kim Kardashian to Nayib Bukele and Cyril Ramaphosa, the presidents of El Salvador and South Africa. He meets with governors.

He even met unofficially with a bunch of Boston Red Sox players a week ago, in town to play the Washington Nationals, who were touring the White House. Trump shook hands with them all in the Oval Office. Healey could have snuck in with them.

What is interesting about the rogue visit is that the team is owned by fiercely anti-Trump John Henry, who also owns the fiercely anti-Trump Boston Globe, which is run by his fiercely anti-Trump wife, Linda Pizzuti.

The Red Sox manager is fiercely anti-Trump, Alex Cora, who in 2019 boycotted the team’s official visit to the White House to greet Trump after they won the World Series.

While the Globe did a brief, three-paragraph story on the visit, it did not mention the names of the 10 players who were greeted by Trump.

Trump’s warm greeting just may have inspired the Sox to sweep the Nationals in their three-game series, even though it was rumored (by me) that Trump may have signed an executive order forcing the last-place Nationals to fold to the second-to-last-place Red Sox.

But if a bunch of ballplayers can get to see the president, why can’t the governor of Massachusetts?

The answer is that she can. But she must make the effort, just as anti-Trump Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan did.

Whitmer was able to stifle her anti-Trump views long enough to get Trump to green-light a new Air National Guard fighter mission at a Michigan air base that saved 600 jobs and provided an $850 million boost to the Michigan economy.

She even greeted and accompanied Trump to Selfridge Air Base, where the announcement was made. In answer to backlash from fellow progressives, she said there were times that “you’re reminded that your job is to put service above self, and that’s what it was all about.”

Healey would have to do the same by putting service to Massachusetts above service to her politically progressive self.

The Massachusetts equivalent to Whitmer would be for Healey, after an Oval Office meeting, to greet Trump at the Sagamore Bridge on Cape Cod, where Trump would announce a grant of a couple of billion in federal funds to replace the functionally obsolete Sagamore and Bourne Bridges.

Healey, like progressive Whitmer, has been a longtime Trump critic, only worse. Unlike Whitmer, Healey sued Trump some one hundred times in four years during Trump’s first term when she was attorney general.

Most of the suits were Democrat inspired nuisance suits that Trump shrugged off. Besides, everybody sues Trump.

Still, she has been nowhere as nasty toward Trump as are the useless members of the state’s delegation to Congress, none of whom have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever interacting with Trump, let alone contacting him. That leaves Maura.

Besides, if all the Democrat inspired legal actions against Trump had any validity, he would have been behind bars long ago.

But he is president and will be for another three and a half years.

Make the call, Maura, and take one for the team.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com