If nothing else, the election of President Trump has upped the profile of California’s new junior senator, Kamala Harris.

Had Hillary Clinton won the November election, unofficial rules of the seniority-driven Senate would have relegated rookie Harris to the shadows, with her voice to be raised only as part of the pro-Clinton choir.

But with Trump in the White House, it’s open season. And Harris is wasting no time taking her shots.

In her first speech on the Senate floor last week, Harris spent 12 minutes tearing into Trump’s immigration edicts — especially his attempt to temporarily bar people from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S.

“This ban may as well have been hatched in the basement headquarters of ISIS,” Harris said. “We handed them a tool of recruitment to use against us.”

She added that “policies that demonize entire groups of people based on the god they worship have a way of conjuring real-life demons.”

With sound bites like that, Harris is heading to the front of the resistance line — and the Sunday morning talk shows as well.

On the ball: NBA All-Star guard Damian Lillard’s recent much-hyped visit to his alma mater was a big hit for both Oakland High School and his athletic shoe sponsor.

In December, hundreds of students packed an assembly at the Oakland High gym, festooned with Adidas banners, to honor their campus hero, watch as his number was retired and to hear three of rap’s biggest acts — Fetty Wap, DJ Esco and Lil Uzi Vert.

It turns out that Adidas and Lillard spent more than half a million dollars on the event, largely to spiff up the gym — including installing a new scoreboard — but also to make over the school’s weight room and a sound studio.

Although it was billed as the Portland Trail Blazer’s return to his roots, the event also served as the launch party for Adidas’ new Dame 3 sneakers — which retail for $115.

Lillard signed an endorsement deal with Adidas in 2014, which ESPN estimated could be worth as much as $100 million over 10 years.

“I wanted to do something for my people and talk about my roots,” Lillard said in an interview with the NBA players union after his Dec. 16 return to Oakland High. “And I love the fact that they can feel connected to me through a shoe, because they know what a shoe represents.”

But not everyone thinks the corporate trade-off was worth it.

“There is something untoward about using something that seems like a feel-good event and honoring an alum, and using that to market shoes to kids — and more specifically, very expensive shoes,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a nonprofit that fights “the exploitive practice of child-targeted marketing.”

“I don’t think we should allow advertising to be done on school grounds, no matter what we are getting in return for it,” Golin said.

But Lillard said the visit “wasn’t even about my brand.”

“The stuff that I did was for the school,” he said in his players union interview. “It’s just to have better resources, better-quality things and to hopefully make it more of an attractive destination ... so kids would want to come to school.”

John Sasaki, spokesman for the Oakland Unified School District, also defended the event.

“It was appropriate in these circumstances for an alum of Oakland High to come back and put on a big party for our students that capped off an amazing project that revamped a lot of our important facilities,” Sasaki said.

Words matter: A one-word text by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to his top staffers likening Supervisor Aaron Peskin to the “Gestapo” for wanting the option of putting witnesses under oath when they testify before the board’s Government and Audit Oversight Committee has Peskin in an uproar.

The legislation, which the supervisors narrowly voted down Tuesday, was a reaction to UC Berkeley structural engineering Professor Jack Moehle’s recent testimony under subpoena — but not under oath — about the tilting and sinking Millennium Tower, which Peskin is investigating.

“As a Jewish American, it has been heart wrenching to watch the direction that our country is headed,” Peskin wrote in a letter to the mayor on Friday. “History has taught us what careless and hateful comments can engender, particularly in the halls of power.

“I must ask that you make a public apology to me and the Jewish community,” Peskin said.

Mayoral press secretary Deirdre Hussey said the “Gestapo” crack was an expression of Lee’s concern that Peskin’s under-oath legislation could be used to “intimidate, harass and bully” members of the public.

“The more appropriate word he intended to use was ‘McCarthyesque,’” Hussey said.