There are two ways of looking at this. One is that you’d be off your game, too, if you discovered, somewhere between the holly and the phony snow, that you were cruising toward an impeachment new year.

The other is that even if Mike Flynn had kept quiet until the feast of the Epiphany, Trump would have found a way to screw up our season, to make things weird at minimum. It’s sort of his genius.

Remember during the campaign, when he managed to ruin the affable, bipartisan Al Smith dinner for Catholic charities by comparing himself to Jesus and suggesting Hillary Clinton hated Catholics? And just this week he wrecked a tribute to Native American war heroes with that Pocahontas joke. So bottom line, you can never relax.

It’s times like this one that we mull how useful it might be to have a royal family. The kind that just devotes itself to producing cute new heirs to the throne and doesn’t even have a national security adviser. If we had a royal family it would be holding lots of normal Christmas festivities right now, to distract us while the political leaders were busy being flushed down the toilet.

Although with our current run of luck, the king would probably get caught groping somebody.

Even before the Flynn crisis exploded, it was becoming clear that Donald Trump couldn’t be trusted to get us through a holiday season unscathed. It’s true that he did pardon those turkeys. But earlier this week, he managed to wreck a normal political sit-down-with-the-opposition talk with Democratic leaders about keeping the government open for the rest of the year.

Did not seem like a heavy lift. You get together with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, drink some coffee, nod coolly and then go back upstairs to take a nap. Just so the country knows you’re making the effort.

To set his version of the proper mood, Trump tweeted: “Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a deal!”