Tabatha Southey: The U.S. President recently said that the noise made by windmills causes cancer.
This week at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner, Donald Trump returned to one of his favourite pastimes and, no, I don’t mean lambasting the “fake news” media as the “enemy of the people.” Although he did whine that “someone’s gonna leak this whole damn speech to the media,” while the whole damn speech in question was being broadcast on C-SPAN. I just hope I can trust all of you not to leak to this column.
Trump then went on to tell his audience that “they say the noise causes cancer,” which of course it doesn’t, but for some reason America elected Weird Ranty Great Uncle You Avoid Inviting to Thanksgiving Dinner to the highest office in the land. “After this he made a noise that Vox’s Aaron Rupar reported as “Rerrrr rerrrr!” but which I personally think of as more of a “Reeeer Raaaaaair.
What with Trump’s fixation with windmills, and his apparently new preoccupation with “oranges,” I imagine the Dutch must be starting to feel a bit nervous about now. Trump has publicly referenced windmills more than 75 times since 2012, in tweets, speeches and interviews. “I know a lot about wind,” he said this week, and then of course there is the lawsuit, which may well be what propels his turbine preoccupation.
Don Quixote’s delusions are rooted in his habit of reading fantastic and illogical tales of chivalric adventure and romance with “such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property.” The ingenious gentleman of La Mancha’s enthusiasm for knight-errantry, fostered by these yarns, eventually inspires him to set out to emulate his heroes, setting out to be a force for nobility and justice himself.
While “seeing in his imagination what he didn’t see and what didn’t exist,” Don Quixote is still capable of true lucidity and even insight as in, “Hunger is the best sauce in the world.” He is also, of course, a fictional, 17th-century character and as such poses little threat to the liberal world order. I believe the worst that comes of a character like that is a musical, and that’s already happened.
Don Quixote has little family and he neglects them. Which is certainly unfortunate, but then Don Quixote would never pull rank to get his “niece under 20” or her boyfriend a top level security clearance over the objections of the intelligence community.
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