Cattle graze in a pasture near a wind turbine in Adair, Iowa. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 3 at 9:56 AM For the uninitiated, President Trump’s comments about wind energy at a Republican fundraising dinner Tuesday night must have seemed like a non sequitur, at best.
Why yes, he did! And for those familiar with Trump’s track record in business, that claim wasn’t surprising at all. Trump sued, unsuccessfully, to prevent the wind farm from being built. He attacked Scottish politicians, especially then-Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, for allowing the project. Those attacks, involving nearly 100 derogatory tweets between 2012 and 2014, would be familiar to any observer of Trump. Some focused on trying to persuade Salmond not to support the wind farm proposal. Others were retweets of people disparaging Salmond.
An ad the Trump Organization took out targeting Salmond was banned from being published in the United Kingdom for being misleading. — Donald J. Trump September 5, 2013 And, of course, Trump embraced the idea that wind turbines were hazardous to people’s health.
And it's all because of a golf course. Of course...
'Trump denouncing windmills',... hmmm...... nothing unusual.
5 nuclear plants put out mor energy than all solar and wind. AND they work around the clock in any weather condition
I got windfarm lungs
realDonaldTrump
They should take a survey of people that have lived on streets with very heavy traffic for a long time, verses people living on streets that have hardly any traffic & see which people living in these two different neighborhoods come down with the most cancers.
That's just childishly ridiculous
Full blown crazy
Please. If an annoying sound is akin to cancer, I️ would have died a long time ago having listened to his speeches
Why not an article headline that says, ' The Benefits of Wind Energy and How it Directly Effects You'
Insane!
Is this something he saw on the Si Fy channel or Fox News?
If we’ve all learned anything through the years it’s that fact that everything can cause cancer !
Cancer cluster for sure...
Not only that but bald eagles are so stupid that they fly right into the wind machines
Don't make him an adjective please. He's hard enough to take as a noun.
So he cold make the brrrrr windmill sound, like a two year old?
Well I dont know about cancer but they do kill living animals. France already proved that... And Wapo is Bullshat news always stirring the pot and not helping anything...
Sounds like a push for fossil fuel friends. Hell do anything to get his rich contributors and lobbyists more business. When does the GOP draw a line on the sand or is the party doomed?
Make Trump look like the bad environment guy, very tricky...NOT FakeNews EnemyOfThePeople
We should have Wind Farms...in every State of the United States !!
His MAGA hat is on way to tight.
That settles it coal must cause less cancer than wind farms. What idiots.
Do you think we should tell the idiot, that deep fried foods to include chicken, potatoes, fish and donuts poses a real cancer health risk?
As logical as trees causing wind isn't it?
Dump Trump !
Trump: 'I once passed a wind farm, got cancer and cured myself by playing golf'.
He said Obama was born in Kenya, his dad was born in Germany and wind mills cause cancer. What is wrong with him? Seriously what is wrong with him.
Don’t even give publicity to his bizarre delusions, people might believe it!
Curse that damn air
And they are all stupid
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With all due respect: this is stupid Trump bashing! What's true: Wind farms kill insects and kill birds. And the ultra sound of the blades is an issue. Not for those morons of course who want to world to believe in 100% 're-newable' engery.
This is getting ridiculous that we have to tolerate a president with dementia on a daily basis. That the people who are responsible for removing him are failing the country!!
They’re not windmills. Windmills grind corn. These are wind turbines and they make less noise than an orange garbage recycler.
Can you disprove him?
Says the defender of burning more Coal Ah geez the balls on this guy
How about the EPA approving dumping of carcinogenic mining waste into the waterways or the protection roll backs?
Can we send this lunatic to a mental hospital please? Thank you very much
OMG 😂
Stop trying to make “trumpian” a thing. We already have a term for it, it’s called Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Congratulations! You caught the car! Good boy! Now go back to covering the serious malfeasance and treason of this administration.
Again,
.. And too much golf causes heel spurs...
dies that explain realDonaldTrump StableGenius behavior from riding in helicopters?
I think wind farms are beautiful, relaxing and necessary. realDonaldTrump cancer producing? Please - show me the evidence. FakeNews
😂🤣 damn, dude is just out there. He's literally a version of a king in a non monarchy trying to convince people if nonsense. If wind farms were so 'terrible' then I'm sure the great gop place of Texas wouldn't have the most to provide energy
I was out at a wind farm yesterday. Oh my God! I'm going to die! Chest...tightening. Vision getting blurry. It's getting hard to swallow. Ma...is that you? I'm so glad we had this time together, just to laugh and sing a song...Hold me closer, Ed. It's gettin' dark...
So now trump is a scientist? Lmao
Trump: Black Lung is nickname I came up with to describe a healthy coal worker. They are able to work harder and faster, producing more coal for use in our clean coal burning facilities. God Bless and live long and healthy.
I’d guess that the batteries needed to store the electricity are the primary culprit. Compared to solar panels the spinning blades themselves are relatively enviro friendly to non-winged creatures? Well, except for the noise.
For those Not aware, Hitler was the biggest supporter of wind power.
Wonderful
Does this mean these will prevent cancer?
As realDonaldTrump 's base in WV die from black lung as a result of mining coal.
Wait until he finds out how unhealthy coal fired factories are.
I'll pose a different reason, everything Trump does is intended to weaken America in service to Putin.
Just one reason: ignorance.
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