In which our knight-errant slays the carcinogenic windmill

[DonViejo]

By Dana Milbank
Columnist
April 5 at 5:10 PM

President Trump really puts the “err” in knight errant.

Cervantes tells us that Don Quixote attacked the windmill with his lance. This week, Trump also attacked the lowly turbine — with misinformation.

“If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations: Your house just went down 75 percent in value,” the president told Republican donors Tuesday. “And they say the noise causes cancer.” He made a circling gesture and emitted the carcinogenic sound himself: “Whirrr! Whirrr!”

How silly! Everybody knows windmills don’t cause cancer. They cause autism. Much like vaccines.

The windmill wonder was just one way in which Trump has wandered off course in the past two weeks. Attorney General William Barr’s reading of the Mueller report gives Trump a fairly clean bill of health (whether the report itself did so is another matter). Trump, unshackled, should be lord of the manor. Instead, he’s playing the knight errant, bouncing from crackup to pratfall.

One moment, he informs us there is a “very good likelihood” he will close the border with Mexico within days. The next, he says he’s delaying that a year and might first “tariff their cars” — upending the trade deal he just negotiated.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-a-knight-errant-just-looking-for-his-windmill/2019/04/05/6dc9b4a4-57b9-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html

[True Blue American]

1. Trump said yesterday

He may never close the border!

Deteriorating fast.