Trump Ripped After ‘Insane’ New Ramble Against Wind Power

President Donald Trump spent a part of his weekend in Scotland reviving his outdated grievances in opposition to wind energy, even claiming at one level that it was “killing” People.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 mentioned. “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 most costly type of vitality. It’s no good. They’re made in China, nearly 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 mentioned. “It’s very costly. And in all equity, Germany tried it and wind doesn’t work.”

Trump, who has ceaselessly attacked renewable vitality, has a particular hatred of wind energy that doubtless 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 sued to dam it, misplaced and has complained about wind and different types of renewable vitality since.

He talked about that on Sunday as properly.

“Immediately I’m taking part in the very best course I feel on the earth, Turnberry ― regardless that I personal it ― it’s in all probability the very best course on the earth, proper?” he mentioned. “And I look over the horizon and I see 9 windmills. … I mentioned, ‘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 trigger most cancers.

“The wind, the wind, it sounds so fantastic,” he mentioned final 12 months. “The wind, the wind, the wind is, the wind is bullshit, I’ll inform you.”

Trump’s critics known as him out for his newest out-of-the-blue tirade in opposition to wind vitality: