I suspect that I’m not the only one suffering these days from whiplash, head spinning, and trying to keep up with everything happening in this nutty world.

Let’s see: We’re still at war with Iran, a controversial engagement that is either a pivotal action to protect the world from nuclear annihilation at the hands of a rogue terrorist organization, or — if you listen to the administration’s strident critics — an engagement that was ill-conceived, unnecessary, and possibly an illegal action by our reckless president. Either way, it’s a huge deal.

Meanwhile, we’ve been building stronger relationships throughout the Middle East to help stabilize that region while simultaneously working in the background to facilitate a long-overdue end to the Russia-Ukraine war that Joe Biden allowed to start five years ago.

And the U.S. is finally paying attention to bubbling chaos in our own hemisphere, attempting to stem the production and distribution of illicit narcotics and reversing the criminal and economic decay in Venezuela and Cuba, the latter of which is fast coming to a head.

And while we keep our eyes on these aforementioned issues, we’re working internally to keep our nation’s economic house in order. Depending on which analysis you choose to believe, the U.S. economy is either in terrific shape (based on key indicators and market trends) or in disastrous condition, riddled with affordability and inflation problems.

The American voting public is deeply divided — Left vs. Right, Democrat vs. Republican. Public unrest seems to heat up daily, with well-orchestrated protests (riots, actually) opposing actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to apprehend and deport dangerous illegal aliens.

We have a president running around in circles (although seemingly not yet out of breath) trying to deal with all of these issues. Behind him (way behind, unfortunately) is a relatively non-functional Congress facing a midterm election in just six months that may throw all the cards in the air.

Whew! My fingers are tired just writing about everything going on.

So why is it that the hottest of red-hot issues reported via print and broadcast news these days are matters that would seem to be purely second-order in comparison?

Some examples:

• The president-directed White House modifications, including an indoor ballroom to accommodate a large number of participants in official functions, along with expanded and well-protected security spaces. That seemingly sensible upgrade, heavily supported by private contributions, has spawned furious opposition. Following the massive demolition and site preparation, construction is now on a court-ordered hold to address presidential authority to make those changes.

• Repair and recoating of the huge Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Such periodic refurbishment of the pool is necessary, but with the job now underway, it has been widely criticized as too expensive due to executive decision to bypass competitive bidding as a way to achieve quick execution in time for this summer’s 250th birthday festivities.

• Court-ordered delay of the planned two-year closure for major upgrades to the Kennedy Center, as well as reversal of the Trump-led board of directors’ decision to rename the facility the Kennedy-Trump Center.

• Erection of a giant temporary arena on White House grounds for a UFC mixed martial arts event scheduled for June 14, the president’s 80th birthday and U.S. Flag Day. It’s being widely criticized as too lowbrow and inappropriate for that venue.

Why are these relatively trivial matters suddenly consuming such high media attention? Is it the best use of our judicial system to be digging into such second-string issues?

A seemingly unrelated topic of buzz this past week — but also in the realm of “What’s going on here?” — has been the sudden retraction of commitments by several musical acts previously scheduled to perform at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in the period between June 25 and July 10, all for vague reasons along the lines of “It’s getting too political.”

How unfortunate that an event enthusiastically supported by the president of the United States, in celebration of our nation’s 250th birthday, has become, by definition, “too political.” I’d argue that their withdrawal unnecessarily renders it more political, not less. More importantly, can we not find a way — just as we would within our own families — to set aside personal disagreements at times when we should all be celebrating as one?

As to the broader composite of the matters outlined above, l think the explanation is clear:

Since day one of Trump’s current term, his political opponents (I’ll lump them into a broad category of “the Left” to include the Democrat Party and its progressive, socialist, or communist followers) have been united by a single, simple theme: hating Donald Trump and thus being wholly committed to his personal failure on all fronts.

The problem with that toxic viewpoint, of course, is that Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and his failure is our nation’s failure. They are inseparable.

On the grand scale, that dead-end mentality has led to positions and actions in direct contravention of the public good. As obvious examples, U.S. failure in our war against Iran leaves the world to confront a nuclear-armed terrorist nation, and active efforts to derail ICE agents’ work in removing dangerous illegal aliens from our midst leaves vulnerable American citizens at their mercy.

On the smaller scale, wouldn’t those Trump-haters be thrilled if America’s birthday celebration is a bust, marred by the absence of promised entertainment, visible distractions such as blocked-off construction zones, an empty reflecting pool, etc.? They’ll be able to say with glee, “We told you so. Look at the mess that maniac has made of our capital!”

A wrecked birthday party. How small-minded can they be?