To listen to Nancy Pelosi, you might get the idea that President Trump personally hatched the coronavirus in the basement of the White House and then secretly unleashed it on Americans.

OK, she didn’t go quite that far, but her mere linking him to the growing number of COVID-19 deaths is (even for the hyper-partisan House speaker) pretty low — especially with the country deep in the mess.

“Since the president’s signing of the bill” — clearly a reference to the $2.2 trillion relief package she herself delayed for political reasons — “the number of deaths reported has doubled,” she railed Sunday.

Huh? What does Trump’s signing of that law have to do with the death rate?

She went further: “When did the president know about this? . . . What did he know, and when did he know it?” Huh? Is she suggesting some hidden Watergate-style sabotage?

Nor was she done: “As the president fiddles, people are dying.” Fiddles!

Cheap shots in normal times are one thing, but this time is far from normal: Her vague accusations were beyond despicable.

Feel free to fault any particular Trump action or comment — we’ve done it ourselves. But the president and his team are doing their best to address a complex, out-of-the-blue disaster. Like leaders across the world, they’re feeling their way through this, trying to stem the crisis while keeping up the nation’s spirits — and economy.

Experts and amateurs alike will do full analyses of the US (and world) response to the pandemic — afterward. But over-the-top shots like “fiddling while people die” should always be out of bounds, especially for top leaders. Be part of the solution, Madam Speaker.