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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump Attacks Windmills in Speech to Conservative Group: 'I Never Understood Wind' [View all]
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-attacks-windmills-in-speech-to-conservative-group-i-never-understood-wind/President Donald Trump went off on a longtime subject of his ire, windmills, during a weekend speech to a conservative group in Florida.
While Trump was mocking the Green New Deal to attendees of the Turning Point USA conference Saturday, he turned his attention to wind power.
I never understood wind, Trump said. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous if you are into this tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?
So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air, he continued.
A windmill will kill many bald eagles, Trump continued. After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off, that is true. By the way, they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one, they put you in jail. That is OK. But why is it OK for windmills to destroy the bird population?
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While Trump was mocking the Green New Deal to attendees of the Turning Point USA conference Saturday, he turned his attention to wind power.
I never understood wind, Trump said. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous if you are into this tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?
So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air, he continued.
A windmill will kill many bald eagles, Trump continued. After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off, that is true. By the way, they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one, they put you in jail. That is OK. But why is it OK for windmills to destroy the bird population?
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Trump Attacks Windmills in Speech to Conservative Group: 'I Never Understood Wind' [View all]
highplainsdem
Dec 2019
OP
Me. I can't laugh because this appallingly ignorant POS is President of the United States.
Martin Eden
Dec 2019
#36
Repubs could have the same policies/goals with Pence but they prefer 45's stupidity & overt racism.
LonePirate
Dec 2019
#6
plus now the whole Trump family will cock block every ambitious Republican for the Pres nom
TeamPooka
Dec 2019
#66
Of course, birds and other animals being killed by petrochemicals is a-okay n/t
TexasBushwhacker
Dec 2019
#8
The real reason he didn't get drafted, not bone spurs but mental incompetence
captain queeg
Dec 2019
#11
If I remember correctly Korax went on to compare the Enterprise to a garbage scow
captain queeg
Dec 2019
#84
If this post is erally what he said, he needs to use a speech writer more often! None of what's in
napi21
Dec 2019
#18
The bigger the wind turbine, the less likely there will be bird strikes.
Liberal In Texas
Dec 2019
#47
The entirety of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" was more coherent than that.
Aristus
Dec 2019
#28
He must be planning to do something really shitty. Cue idiotic distraction.
TheFourthMind
Dec 2019
#59
In some areas they have caused massive bird kills, ie along the gulf coast flyway, millions.
Liberty Belle
Dec 2019
#70
Exactly. I went through this with my father. A smart man with personality disorders, senile dementia
Midnight Writer
Dec 2019
#77
I think his siblings farted in sacks and then made him breathe it when he was a kid.
Captain Zero
Dec 2019
#76