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usregimechange

(18,595 posts)
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 08:10 AM Sep 2023

Trump bizarrely claims windmills are driving whales 'crazy' in South Carolina speech

Source: Yahoo News

Donald Trump said that windmills are “driving whales a little batty” and causing marine mammals to die “in numbers never seen before” as he went on a bizarre tirade in South Carolina.

The former president also attacked Joe Biden’s regulations on speed boats as he spoke at a rally in the town of Summerville on Monday 25 September.

Vowing to overturn the regulations on “day one” of a return to the White House, he criticised the speed limits put in place “to stop whale strikes”.

Mr Trump then turned the focus on “windmills” and said they are “causing whales to die in numbers never seen before”.

Read more: https://au.news.yahoo.com/trump-bizarrely-claims-windmills-driving-065607404.html

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Trump bizarrely claims windmills are driving whales 'crazy' in South Carolina speech (Original Post) usregimechange Sep 2023 OP
Your source, Motherfucker? Aviation Pro Sep 2023 #1
Is that a rhetorical question? SouthernDem4ever Sep 2023 #18
I think the jab was directed at Trump nt Shermann Sep 2023 #30
You care about whales? TreasonousBastard Sep 2023 #2
We need to start a public edu campaign. usregimechange Sep 2023 #4
He just blames Biden ad nauseum for political ends, just more Trump empty blather bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 #3
Tfg is projecting again. Omnipresent Sep 2023 #5
His issues with windmills date back more decades--with his Scottish properties as I recall. hlthe2b Sep 2023 #6
So much losing, so little winning. Omnipresent Sep 2023 #7
The lunatic will be on his death bed complaining about windmills. sarcasmo Sep 2023 #9
Speaking of crazy whales...... marmar Sep 2023 #8
Yes, even his projection is getting scrambled, the wind mills are driving him crazy, not the whales bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 #12
Don Quixote bmichaelh Sep 2023 #10
Why The Orange Monster is obsessed with windmills ificandream Sep 2023 #11
He was incensed that anything would spoil the view from his Scottish golf club. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2023 #22
And he says Biden is crazy. ificandream Sep 2023 #13
He's not crazy ExWhoDoesntCare Sep 2023 #32
He's scared of PRISON. Now he's playing the "I'm CRAZY GAME" bluestarone Sep 2023 #14
Maybe he'll start wandering about in a bathrobe JoseBalow Sep 2023 #25
He knows none of this is true and I can only imagine chowder66 Sep 2023 #15
In 2019, he claimed windmills cause 'noise cancer' and are graveyards for birds. Torchlight Sep 2023 #16
It causes noise cancer to whales, that's how it works, obviously usregimechange Sep 2023 #19
His whining and blathering causes noise cancer JoseBalow Sep 2023 #26
And this is the best republicans can do for a presidential candidate. republianmushroom Sep 2023 #17
It's true. Orcas in Kansas called me to complain. They refused visit Kansas any more. Wonder Why Sep 2023 #20
And as usual, dim don is confusing wind turbines with windmills. Grokenstein Sep 2023 #21
Biggest problems facing the world harun Sep 2023 #23
It is affecting one orange whale in particular IronLionZion Sep 2023 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author NowsTheTime Sep 2023 #27
Windmills AGAIN?!? BigmanPigman Sep 2023 #28
He craves a reaction, whether positive or negative, to everything he says or does. diva77 Sep 2023 #29
He is a marine biologist. He knows big fish. Mammal. twodogsbarking Sep 2023 #31
He hates windmills because BlueIdaho Sep 2023 #33

hlthe2b

(113,985 posts)
6. His issues with windmills date back more decades--with his Scottish properties as I recall.
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 08:33 AM
Sep 2023

He was on the losing side of the argument...

Omnipresent

(7,456 posts)
7. So much losing, so little winning.
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 08:37 AM
Sep 2023

The numbers are getting astronomical on that first part.

bucolic_frolic

(55,162 posts)
12. Yes, even his projection is getting scrambled, the wind mills are driving him crazy, not the whales
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 09:21 AM
Sep 2023

unless he is the whale. So there is that.

ificandream

(11,837 posts)
11. Why The Orange Monster is obsessed with windmills
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 09:20 AM
Sep 2023

On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire said the back story to this was that Scotland ordered Trump to pay $290,000 in legal costs over a wind power case.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47400641

Scottish government wins Donald Trump wind power legal costs

BBC: Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf resort must pay the Scottish government's legal costs following a court battle over a major North Sea wind power development.

Mr Trump battled unsuccessfully in the courts to halt the project before he became US president.

A total of 11 turbines make up the development off Aberdeen.

Judges have now ruled Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd should pay the legal bills incurred. Mr Trump had argued the development would spoil the view from his golf course at Menie.
22. He was incensed that anything would spoil the view from his Scottish golf club.
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 01:56 PM
Sep 2023

He has the longest list of grievences against foes -- real or imagined -- of any person I know. If something is not 100% to his liking at that time he automatically goes into attack mode. He may turn on a dime, however, and go after a person he championed if he doesn't always sing TFG's praises, e.g., former joint chiefs chairman Mark Milley.

 

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
32. He's not crazy
Wed Sep 27, 2023, 05:53 AM
Sep 2023

He's a malignant narcissist, and he's mad that Scotland wouldn't agree with him to remove windmills in view of his naff golf property there.

Right on cue with a malignant narcissist, because he can't stand it that he didn't get his way, he'll start saying ***anything,*** no matter how dishonest, ludicrous or irrelevant, to make the opponent look bad so that he can have a 'win.' They do the exact same thing when they know they're losing an argument. They'll say ***anything,*** to make it seem like they've made the 'winning' point.

The opponent doesn't even need to be a person for them to act this way. He hates windmills, so he's saying ***anything*** to make them look bad, because that's what made him mad and won't go away. They keep reminding him of when he lost, the worst thing in the world to a narcissist. The losing causes something called narcissistic injury. And always--always--after narcissistic injury comes its partner, narcissistic rage.

I've had to live with narcissists--the 'ordinary' kind and the malignant. This 'say anything to win' tactic is what all of them do when someone has beaten them--at anything. Exhibit A: My mum, the garden variety narcissist. When I'm winning an argument with her, no matter what the subject is, she'll invariably retort with something like, 'Oh, what do you know? You're fat and ugly, so you're too stupid to know anything.'

Like I said, they'll say ***anything*** to win. They don't care what it is, as long as it makes them feel superior in the moment. And, no, they don't care if what they say is vicious and cruel. All that matters to them in that moment is the winning. I mean, if they'll say crap like 'you're stupid and ugly' to one of their own kids to 'win,' what chance does anyone else have of avoiding their narcissistic rage?

bluestarone

(22,186 posts)
14. He's scared of PRISON. Now he's playing the "I'm CRAZY GAME"
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 09:45 AM
Sep 2023

He's a crafty actor. He's NOT crazy. My opinion is, he wants us to believe he's crazy. I don't buy it!

chowder66

(12,246 posts)
15. He knows none of this is true and I can only imagine
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 11:33 AM
Sep 2023

what he says about all of his supporters when in private. He's probably saying to himself these idiots will worship a mudpie therefore they will be easily controlled by anything I demand of them.

I'm sure he gets off on watching throngs of people bend over for him over utter whacked-out bullshit.

Torchlight

(6,830 posts)
16. In 2019, he claimed windmills cause 'noise cancer' and are graveyards for birds.
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 11:52 AM
Sep 2023
“If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer,” the president said while delivering remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual spring dinner. He offered no evidence to support the claim... “If it doesn’t blow, you can forget about television for that night,” Trump said. ‘Darling, I want to watch television.’ ‘I’m sorry! The wind isn’t blowing.’ I know a lot about wind,” he added.


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437096-trump-claims-noise-from-windmills-causes-cancer/

Yeah, he's certainly an odd duck.

Grokenstein

(6,357 posts)
21. And as usual, dim don is confusing wind turbines with windmills.
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 01:34 PM
Sep 2023

But his supporters wouldn't understand if you explained it with pictures. They would consider it their "patriotic duty" to refuse to understand the difference.

harun

(11,381 posts)
23. Biggest problems facing the world
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 02:09 PM
Sep 2023

Speedboat regulations
Whale windmill deaths
Hillarys Emails
Benghazi
Wokeness

They think if they solve those the world will be perfect for everyone.

Response to usregimechange (Original post)

diva77

(7,880 posts)
29. He craves a reaction, whether positive or negative, to everything he says or does.
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 05:46 PM
Sep 2023

Last edited Tue Sep 26, 2023, 06:17 PM - Edit history (1)

This was confirmed as well by Cassidy Hutchinson in yesterday's interview.

Press should stop platforming his garbage.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
33. He hates windmills because
Wed Sep 27, 2023, 11:03 AM
Sep 2023

He just lost a big case where he sued for the removal of windmills near one of his Scottish golf courses. The court denied his case and ordered him to pay all legal fees. You see it’s always about him.

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