Has our "needed bombing" of the U.N. been canceled?

America's fiery casus belli this week at the United Nations —  "very sinister events!" roared Trump yesterday about a teleprompter glitch and stuck escalator — only seemed quickly subdued.

The first, by the cool-headed intervention of JD Vance. "Did everyone notice how despite the lack of a teleprompter, he delivered a clear, reasonable address on US foreign policy? It's nice to have a president with a brain!"

The temperature-lowering significance of JD's contribution was instant distraction; he left everyone wondering who "he" was.

According to the veep's account, despite a momentary tech defect, some brainy president from some country somewhere gave a reasonable, reassuring, extemporaneous speech on U.S. foreign policy. But who?

Because it sure as hell wasn't Trump. His "address," called such only with comic charity or the cringe of JD's put-me-in-coach assmosis, was instead a catastrophizing screed of psychotic piffle and sheer bile.

The other crisis — sort of a broken stairlift for the near-80-year-old, dementia-racked autocrat — Trump has now declared a barely averted "disaster" and "absolutely" an act of "sabotage" done by dark forces at the nefarious U.N.

And yet, on the day of this sinister event, he becalmed tense global nerves by telling the organization's top guy that “Our country is behind the United Nations 100 percent," adding that its "potential ... is incredible, really incredible."

So what later got Trump all stirred up and shanghaied into spewing dire superlatives in that briefest of spans, Tuesday to Wednesday? The answer is a who: one of the addled autocrat's chief advisers — Fox News' Jesse Watters. On-air, he said this about Trump's stuck stairlift and, pointedly, the U.N.: "we need to bomb it."

That Jesse doubles as part of a "vast domestic terrorist movement" seems not to bother Trump chiefest advisor, Steven Miller. Otherwise today he'd be in a rickety Air Force cargo plane and on his way to South Sudan.

But perhaps these events so "very sinister" and naturally bomb-worthy will not, after all, cause Trump to take Jesse's advice and incinerate New York City's United Nations building. Because there's always his mayfly attention span.

Indeed, already, which is to say, within the last hour, Trump appears to have moved on, doing the job he was elected to do: gloating about the "absolutely stunning," dictator-chic "New lobby leading to Oval Office — Magnificent marble floor."

This morning he also turned to enforcing the nation's sacred laws, posting a poster — Trump and Trumpers love posters — that re-announces: "TREASON! Trump stuns reporters after declaring Barack Obama will face justice."

Same hour, we find Trump reposting a Social Truther's post about the N.J. gubernatorial contest between maga's Jack Ciattarelli and modernity's Mikie Sherill: "If he loses to her it will because [sic] of cheating." Of course it will, even though in September's polling the Dem has been up by as much as 10 points.

It could be, however, that what finally distracts Trump's bug-like attention from explosive retribution will be nothing more than his endlessly streaming narcissistic celebrations, such as his job approval has "move[d] up again today" to a delusional "57.11%," and his grotesque, universally excoriated U.N. "Speech has gotten fantastic reviews."

Well, whatever it takes.

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