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Miles Archer

(22,242 posts)
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 08:45 PM Dec 30

Trump bemoans dead bald eagle in US -- using photo of dead falcon in Israel

Trump bemoans dead bald eagle in US — using photo of dead falcon in Israel

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674838464/

Trump appeared to get his birds mixed up on Tuesday when he made a snide social media post about wind energy.

On Truth Social, Trump posted a picture of a dead bird in a field of wind turbines. "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" the caption reads. It was amplified by the White House and viewed millions of times on X.

However, the bird in the picture isn't a bald eagle, as the president claims. It's an Israeli falcon.

"Unfortunately for Trump’s effort to sow outrage among American patriots at what he proclaimed to be an image of the national bird laid low, closer inspection reveals the photograph does not show a bald eagle and was not taken in the United States," The Guardian reported after Trump posted the image. "The image actually shows a falcon that was killed at a wind farm in Israel eight years ago."

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kwolf68

(8,297 posts)
2. The Bad Eagle
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:12 PM
Dec 30

Recovered in large part because of the banning of pesticides and the Endangered Species Act. If it was up to this motherfucker the ESA would be written off the books and we'd be drinking DDT.

FUCK you Trump. Don't use anything from the natural world to advance your agenda you putz.

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Norbert

(7,652 posts)
8. I've hit two birds last year with my car.
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:25 PM
Dec 30

Maybe we should ban cars, SUVs and trucks because they kill our beautiful birds.

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