The single best moment Katie Wilson had in her first week of being Seattle’s mayor-elect? When she did nothing.

She didn’t take the bait.

It’s harder to do than it looks — as countless seething, but ultimately degraded, public officials from the toxic times of Donald Trump can attest.

Wilson’s first direct exposure to Trump’s revolving insult theater arrived suddenly this past week, when the president called her a “communist” and “another beauty we got there.” He also raised the prospect of pulling Seattle’s World Cup soccer games, because of her election or some vague “trouble” in the city.

It launched dozens of stories in media outlets around the nation and world. As well as the requisite second-day cleanup stories, with officials giving soothing reassurances for fans that the games

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