Bizarre Moment Trump Declares Windmills Are 'Killing Us'

Monday, July 28, 2025

sident went on a wild rant about the energy source, claiming wind turbines are a "con job" and drive whales "loco."

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 10:30 PM | 45 COMMENTS | permalink

Tilting at windmills? Trump's claims about turbines fact-checked

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-- The Guardian (@theguardian.com) Jul 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM

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"Windmills are bad" says the------------ who's building concentration camps.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-28 01:51 AM

Trump tilts at windmills' that ruin view from his golf course
www.thetimes.com

... The US president added to his litany of complaints that wind turbines off the Scottish coast kill birds, make whales crazy and are not biodegradable ...

During a press conference with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, he said: "I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They're killing us. They're killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains."

On the third day of his visit to Scotland, Trump said that the wind turbines had ruined the view from the 18th hole of his Ayrshire golf course. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-28 02:36 AM

@#3 ... Trump said that the wind turbines had ruined the view from the 18th hole of his Ayrshire golf course. ...

So, that seems to be Pres Trump's main concern in his diatribes regarding windmills?

That they ruin the view from his golf course?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-28 03:15 AM

Oh well....RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-28 07:59 AM

I just watched the press conference.

Trump sounds like a junior high school student. He is not an intelligent man, but he is an emotional child.

How embarrassing

#5 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-28 10:29 AM

Pedo Donnie is insane

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-28 03:27 PM

Trump has opinions on everything and knows practically nothing.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-29 06:27 AM

Trump has opinions on everything and knows practically nothing.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Isn't that the truth?!

Also true of the morons who believed he was a "successful businessman" on The Apprentice as he was near another bankruptcy.

#8 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-29 06:30 AM

AU
He's as fake as those ridiculous "gold" props in his "office."
Baker Act, paging Baker Act.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-29 06:56 AM

One has to wonder if the fossil fuel industry has Trump on a retainer or something. Human caused global warming is a clear and present danger, and windmills can help countering that coming disaster.

#10 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-07-29 08:34 AM

Not very "alpha" to be afraid of rainbows, M&Ms, Mr. Potato Head, or "windmills".

#11 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-07-29 09:39 AM

Notice the look on her face....priceless. Derisive smile.

#12 | Posted by shoeless at 2025-07-29 09:40 AM

After all the movies I've watched, I never thought the real-life super-villain would be so ------ dumb.

#13 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-07-29 09:46 AM

5. Big Humanities Data will eventually show his decline in vocabulary over the years. He's in his grade-school years now.

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-07-29 09:48 AM

The President seems to be having severe confusion about his own identity; His first name is definitely Don but is his last name actually Quixote? And is he delusionally tilting at windmills thinking they are giants?

#15 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-29 09:49 AM

he meant "killing us" as in finacially

I work with Wind Farms regularly, they do kill a lot of birds and bats. the estimate is about 1M migrant birds a year and climbing.

The subsidies we provide to the wind industry goes overseas because most of the Turbines are built overseas; Vestas is probably the biggest provider and they are a Danish company, Iberdrola is Scottish, etc...

#16 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-07-29 10:19 AM

Sure pal. Go ---- yourself, MAGAT scum.

#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-29 10:50 AM

Every drop of oil replaced by energy from a windmill is a step in the direction of combatting global climate change whether stupid jerks like Desantis and Trump want to understand reality or not.

#18 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-29 11:24 AM

Is stinky going to kill research of windmill cancer?

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-29 12:18 PM

"One has to wonder if the fossil fuel industry has Trump on a retainer or something."

Well, he did request a billion dollar bribe from Big Oil in order to secure a steep tax cut for them.

Re 18

Scheid Family Wines, located in Monterey County, California, operates its winery entirely on wind power. They installed a large wind turbine that generates 100% of the electricity needed for their winery and bottling operations, and also provides power to 125 additional local homes. The winery utilizes the consistent winds of the Salinas Valley, making it a highly efficient and sustainable operation.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-29 12:19 PM

we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States.

There are currently 75,000+ wind turbines operating in the US. Is he going to demand they all be removed? How many of those old coal plants has he got fired back up?

I can't believe his staff lets him go out in public. Especially when there are cameras around.

#21 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-29 01:32 PM

they do kill a lot of birds and bats. the estimate is about 1M migrant birds a year and climbing.

It's estimated that 1 billion birds are killed in N. America yearly from windows.

The total population of birds in North America has decreased by 2.9 billion (29%) over the last 50 years due to climate change.

Get on the right Bandwagon.

#22 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-07-29 07:07 PM

@#22 ... t's estimated that 1 billion birds are killed in N. America yearly from windows. ...

My first thought when I read your comment was, it has to be a typo.

Then I explored ...

Wow.

New Study Confirms Building Collisions Kill Over One Billion Birds Annually in U.S.
abcbirds.org

#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-29 07:27 PM

@#23

Forgot to add, the article is from 2024.

#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-29 07:28 PM

As i mention in #2, Pres trump's big concern with windmills for this particular event was that tey, he thought, ruined the view from his golf course.

From the article in #2...

... Trump said that the wind turbines had ruined the view from the 18th hole of his Ayrshire golf course. ...

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-29 07:31 PM

The total population of birds in North America has decreased by 2.9 billion (29%) over the last 50 years due to climate change.

LOL Sure.

#26 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-29 07:51 PM

global warming is fake. Oneironut read it on X.com.

#27 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-29 07:54 PM

Scotts used grok then watched gay porn.

#28 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-29 07:54 PM

New Study Confirms Building Collisions Kill Over One Billion Birds Annually in U.S.

Sure, a Billion birds? OMG This place is hilarious.

... Trump said that the wind turbines had ruined the view from the 18th hole of his Ayrshire golf course. ...

Didn't a bunch of people on the east coast say the same thing?
youtu.be

Maybe, just maybe wind turbines are horrible, in the Tehachapi valley there are 3-4 generations of wind turbines. I have never seen greater than 25% working on a given day.

Its just ugly.

#29 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-29 07:56 PM

One Billion Birds

I seem to recall housecats kill that many if not more?

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-29 08:21 PM

@#30 ... I seem to recall housecats kill that many if not more? ...

Got a link?

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-29 08:24 PM

About how big is the bird population?
www.amnh.org

...About 10 years ago, two scientists decided to estimate the total number of birds on the planet. The number they came up with was 200 to 400 billion individual birds. ...

#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-29 08:32 PM

@#29 ... Maybe, just maybe wind turbines are horrible ...

Maybe, maybe not.

But Pres Trump's expressed concern seemed to be that he did not like the "view" of them from the 18th hole of his golf course.

#33 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-29 08:35 PM

Maybe, just maybe wind turbines are horrible
#29 | Posted by oneironaut

Some men just love sucking the Saudi oil dick, I can't explain why.

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-29 08:51 PM

I live among the wind turbines. They're great. Simply great and one remaining reason rural Texas has not dried up and blown away, Pun intended.

#35 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-29 08:56 PM

LOL Sure.

Any inconvenient fact they just 'Fake News!' it away.

This is why I generally don't debate fahugging morons.

#36 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-07-30 02:41 AM

Sure, a Billion birds? OMG This place is hilarious.

OneNut never spends a minute of investigation. He confirms everything through his Never-Wrong intestinal tract with the results being the stuff he posts on DR.

#37 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-07-30 02:43 AM

Tilting at windmills...

"Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth."
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."

"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, "you don't know much about adventures."

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

#38 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-07-30 03:16 AM

"I seem to recall housecats kill that many if not more?"

Ok, so the liberal measure is now "how much wildlife dies by non-humans" as their measure on whether something is a danger to nature. Guess what, a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE amount of wildlife dies in rainforests, WAAAAAAY more than humans kill...yet that doesn't stop liberals from whining about the lumber industry.

Once again, hypocrisy is the only platform liberals have.

#39 | Posted by humtake at 2025-07-30 11:42 AM

Once again, hypocrisy is the only platform liberals have.

#39 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

Whereas your platform is slowly murdering one-half million kids in Gaza through starvation.

Anyone told you to go eff yourself lately?

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-30 11:46 AM

yet that doesn't stop liberals from whining about the lumber industry.

Once again, hypocrisy is the only platform liberals have.

#39 | Posted by humtake

If you understood earth's carbon cycle, you'd know what the lumber industry needs to be regulated. But you're dumb and ignorant, so you dont understand it, and you whine about the smarter people that do understand it.

#41 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-30 12:57 PM

Lamplighter:

here's that link:
abcbirds.org

#42 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-07-30 02:09 PM

Clambake is off her meds

#43 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-30 08:06 PM

Ok, so the liberal measure I just made up is now "how much wildlife dies by non-humans" as their measure on whether something is a danger to nature.

FTFY

No, my point was that birds die from a lot of things. As you recall, this whole thread was about Trump pretending to give a ---- about birds dying from windmills a decidedly non-human thing.

Straw Man Saturday is still a few days away, try to keep up.

#44 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-07-30 08:11 PM

"I seem to recall housecats kill that many if not more?"

Ok, so the liberal measure is now "how much wildlife dies by non-humans" as their measure on whether something is a danger to nature.
#39 | Posted by humtake

Wow. You are really off the mark here LOL. Housecats are a human phenomenon.
It's the same way cow farts are a part of manmade global warming.
Man made the cows; and man lets the housecats out.

#45 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-30 08:22 PM

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