Poster for “Fatal Attraction” with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close

Well, I think we have arrived at the moment in the romance or honeymoon when the lover realizes that the beloved may be just a teensy-weensy bit unhinged.

In other words, we’re Michael Douglas, caught in a relationship with a dramatic blonde who just “won’t be ignored.”

President Donald J. Trump rails in print, online and on TV at the information gatherers – the intelligence community and the press – for his “from Russia with love” scandal that sent Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn from Mr. “Lock Her Up” to Mr. “Should We Lock Him Up?” But the intelligence community and the press are merely the mirrors of his debacle. He’s not sorry his cohorts colluded with the Ruskies. He’s sorry they got caught. So he blames the whistleblowers and the messengers. But the person he’s really mad at is himself. Sad, he would say.

But what’s really sad are the Iraqi translators who may not get the better life they were promised in the United States, the Canadian children of diverse backgrounds in Windsor, Ontario forced to forgo a cultural visit to Detroit because their minders are afraid of being detained at the border, the green card-holders faced with uncertainty.

What’s sad is the threat to cultural and commercial exchanges that make the world go ‘round, the decrease of which may ultimately jeopardize our economy and our place as the leader of the free world.

Russian President Vladimir has much to pay for his role in this, but it may not turn out the way he planned. With the Trump administration’s pre-inaugural overtures to Russia under scrutiny, Rootin’ Tootin’ Putin can kiss the lifting of sanctions goodbye and continue to sit on his big fat oil and natural gas supplies.

And ponder how a situation he seems to have orchestrated has spun so horribly out of control.