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Enough of this fucking bullshit.
He denounced "the Green New Scam, where we were scammed." Then he said: "The whole country was " I wasn't scammed. I got it right from the beginning; I got it from the first minute when I heard this crap. You know? They were saying wind was so wonderful, so wonderful, except you couldn't watch your television. They wanted to watch the debate, Donald Trump against Sleepy Joe Biden. Nobody could watch it because the wind wasn't blowing. Remember that? Darling, we'd like to watch the debate tonight.' I'm sorry, the wind isn't blowing.'"
Uh, no.
Trump's wind story wasn't the only fictional tale he told at the Thursday event. He also claimed California has "brownouts and blackouts every weekend," which is simply not true; he has been making similar false claims about California for years.
A spokesperson for Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a Friday email that "there hasn't been a rolling blackout in nearly six years in California" and that "California's grid hasn't had to call for any emergency conservation through the Flex Alert program since 2022, which is proof that the state's investment in clean energy and battery storage is paying off."
And Trump lamented, twice, that he gets "no credit" for the US having received "$19.2 trillion" in investment in just his first 12 months back in office. He doesn't get such credit because the US hasn't actually received anywhere close to $19.2 trillion in investment during this presidential term, let alone take in that much during the first year of the term; as we've repeatedly explained, Trump's figure is a fabrication even the White House can't substantiate.