Trump Went Down a Deranged Rabbit Hole During His Meeting With the European Commission President

Hello, Nutsy Fagen. You’re the apple of my eye.

The other day, European Commission president Ursula von der Layen sat down for a media availability with the only president we have and, within minutes, started looking desperately for a trap door, or for her security detail, whatever was closest. The president, it seemed, wanted to talk about windmills. And talk about them, he did.

“And the other thing I say to Europe: We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us," Trump said.

Guns don’t kill people. Windmills kill people. And then he was off.

“They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains—and I’m not talking about airplanes. I’m talking about beautiful plains, beautiful areas in the United States, and you look up and you see windmills all over the place. It’s a horrible thing. It’s the most expensive form of energy. It’s no good. They’re made in China, almost all of them,” Trump said. “When they start to rust and rot in eight years, you can’t really turn them off, you can’t bury them, they won’t let you. But the propellers, the props, because they’re a certain type of fiber that doesn’t go well with the land, that’s what they say. The environmentalists say you can’t bury them because the fiber doesn’t go well with the land; in other words, if you bury it, it will harm our soil. The whole thing is a con job. It’s very expensive. And in all fairness, Germany tried it and wind doesn’t work."

That none of that is true is almost beside the point. Why is this guy raving about windmills in the middle of a diplomatic meeting with another world leader? This was one of the questions you could see in the eyes of Ms. von der Layen. The other one was, which one of you guys has the trank gun?

Apparently, his bizarre obsession with wind mills has its roots in his attempts to stop a wind farm out in the sea off his Turnberry Golf Course. That came up the other day, too.

“Today I’m playing the best course I think in the world, Turnberry—even though I own it—it’s probably the best course in the world, right?” he said. “And I look over the horizon and I see nine windmills. ... I said, ‘Isn’t that a shame? What a shame.’”

I congratulate Ms. von der Layen on her narrow escape.