Kudos to Donald Trump for dragging the media spotlight to the flood-ravaged areas around Baton Rouge — and shaming President Obama into belatedly scheduling a visit, though not until next Tuesday.

Waters rising in the wake of record rainfalls have killed 13 Louisianians, displaced another 85,000-plus and damaged more than 40,000 homes.

It’s the worst disaster to hit the state since Hurricane Katrina — yet it garnered far less attention, from the media or the White House, until Trump announced his trip.

Trump is living up to his words in North Carolina the other night: “We are one nation. When one state hurts, we all hurt. We must all work together — to lift each other up.” Hours later, he and running mate Mike Pence were touring battered Baton Rouge.

That made the president look like a hypocrite. After all, as a presidential candidate back in 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama slammed George W. Bush as “a president who only saw people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground, trying to provide comfort and aid.”

Yet news of Louisiana’s fresh suffering wasn’t disrupting Obama’s annual golfing vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, beyond signing off on federal disaster aid.

Shades of August 2014: Soon after news broke of the ISIS beheading of American journalist James Foley, our president was spotted . . . playing a round of golf on his Vineyard vacation.

The White House later confessed this was “bad optics.” But the lesson clearly went unlearned until Trump and Pence went off to comfort the afflicted.

What of Hillary Clinton? She refuses to go, claiming the relief effort “can’t afford any distractions” but her “heart breaks for Louisiana.”

Of course, she was also silent until Trump announced his trip — forcing her to speak up lest anyone realize she’ll never feel the pain of any state she doesn’t expect to win in November.