President Donald Trump spent a part of his weekend in Scotland reviving his outdated grievances towards wind power, even claiming at one level that it was “killing” People.
Throughout a gathering with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump abruptly detoured from immigration to wind generators.
“And the opposite factor I say to Europe: We won’t permit a windmill to be inbuilt the USA,” Trump stated. “They’re killing us.”
“They’re killing the fantastic thing about our surroundings, our valleys, our stunning plains ― and I’m not speaking about airplanes. I’m speaking about stunning plains, stunning areas in the USA, and also you lookup and also you see windmills all over. It’s a horrible factor. It’s the costliest type of power. It’s no good. They’re made in China, virtually all of them.”
He complained that wind generators “rust and decay in eight years” after which can’t be “buried” as a result of they’ll hurt the soil.
“The entire thing is a con job,” he stated. “It’s very costly. And in all equity, Germany tried it and wind doesn’t work.”
Trump, who has ceaselessly attacked renewable power, has a particular hatred of wind energy that probably started some twenty years in the past, when an offshore wind farm was proposed close to the land that may grow to be his golf resort in Scotland.
He talked about that on Sunday as effectively.
“In the present day I’m taking part in the perfect course I believe on the earth, Turnberry ― although I personal it ― it’s most likely the perfect course on the earth, proper?” he stated. “And I look over the horizon and I see 9 windmills. … I stated, ‘Isn’t {that a} disgrace? What a disgrace.’”
Trump has beforehand taken his anti-wind stance to absurd extremes, resembling in 2019, when he falsely claimed wind generators cause cancer.
“The wind, the wind, it sounds so great,” he said last year. “The wind, the wind, the wind is, the wind is bullshit, I’ll let you know.”
Trump’s critics known as him out for his newest out-of-the-blue tirade towards wind power:
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