Donald Trump Is Still Feuding With the Wind – Vanity Fair

Donald Trumps hatred of windmills is the stuff of world-historical record. Long before he launched his presidential bid, Trump lost a legal battle with Scotland over the installation of a wind farm near his golf course there, arguing that the turbines would completely destroy the bucolic Aberdeen Bay and cast a terrible shadow upon the future of tourism for the area. Since becoming president, his claims have grown more derangedin April he argued, with zero basis in fact, that the noise from wind turbines causes cancer. And over the weekend, his quixotic vendetta agains the wind reached new levels of crazy.

Speaking to supporters at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Florida on Sunday, the president went on a another deranged tangent about his least-favorite renewable energy source, claiming that wind turbines look like hell, fill the atmosphere with tremendous fumes, and should be put in jail for killing eagles.

Acknowledging that he has never understood wind, despite claiming in his next breath to know windmills very much thanks to his having studied it better than anybody I know, Trump opened his tirade like so:

Theyre manufactured tremendousif youre into thistremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprintfumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether its in China, Germany, its going into the air. Its our air, their air, everythingright?

After alerting his audience to the fact that we have a world, Trump next expressed grievances about the havoc windmills wreak on the landscape:

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Donald Trump Is Still Feuding With the Wind - Vanity Fair