Beware the pettiness of the powerful

Trump arriving at a campaign rally in the south Bronx, New York, on May 23. — AP

DONALD Trump isn’t exactly Don Quixote, but he does have a thing against windmills.

Indeed, Trump’s animus toward wind power is one of the strangest obsessions of a man with many unusual preoccupations (toilets! hair spray!). Over the years, he has asserted, falsely, that wind turbines can cause cancer, that they can cause power outages and that wind energy “kills all the birds” (cats and windows do far more harm). Now he says that if he wins in November, on “Day One” he’ll issue an executive order putting the brakes on offshore wind farm construction.