In a recent interview on British TV, Hollywood megastar Jennifer Lawrence answered a litany questions — and not just about her new movie, “Mother!”

Among the subjects she was asked to weigh in on were the two hurricanes that have devastated communities in Texas and Florida in recent weeks. In her response, she suggested that the storms were, in some way, a response to last year’s election of Donald Trump as the nation’s 45th president.

“You know, you’re watching these hurricanes now, and it’s really hard, especially while promoting this movie, not to feel Mother Nature’s rage [and] wrath,” Lawrence said.

It’s quite a bizarre statement, considering that many of the Americans who have witnessed their homes flooded or destroyed by high winds did not vote for Trump in November. Nor did the citizens of Cuba and other nations that were devastated during Hurricane Irma’s approach to the U.S.

Sadly, Lawrence is not only person to turn the suffering of thousands into yet another platform to voice their complaints about the sitting U.S. president.

While the vast majority of users on sites like Twitter or Facebook posted statements in solidarity with the victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, some expressed glee that Texas and Florida — states that went to Trump during the election — were the ones targeted by the storms. Again, these people ignore that many of the neighborhoods impacted by the storms overwhelmingly voted in favor of Hillary Clinton, but that is a minor detail to those obsessed with continually re-litigating last year’s results.

There is a time and place for politics in our country’s discourse. Shoving them into cases where we should all stand together is not one of them.

Sadly, people on both sides of the aisle are guilty of using the pain and loss of others as a soapbox to advocate for their agenda: Democrats typically use mass shootings to push for increased gun control, while Republicans use Islamic terrorist attacks to call for further control on Muslim immigration into the country. At least in those cases, though, other humans are responsible and the attacks could theoretically have been prevented.

What policies or laws could prevent hurricanes from developing? Even those who argue that climate change is responsible for the ferocity of Harvey and Irma must concede that hurricanes have been a force of nature long before carbon emission was even a known concept.

In the case of the people arguing that Trump or the people who voted for him are responsible for the storms, there is not even any policy or action being advocated — just bitterness and hostility toward people they have likely never met and know little about.

While these opinions are thankfully just a minority, we cannot help but wonder if they are yet another symptom of the disease of tribalist politics that has infected our country’s soul in recent years.

If we cannot stand united in solidarity with people who have lost everything through no fault of their own, is there anything that can bring us together?

Opinions expressed are those of the editorial board consisting of General Manager Ambrosia Neldon and editors Scott Novak and Ted Yoakum.