Press Promptly Spins Trump's Incomprehensible Remarks On Climate Into "Change Of Heart"

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Oh my god, that sounds like a man with Alzheimer's

(or drunk, but he doesn't drink). It gets worse - what he said about wind power:

Context does little to clear up Trump’s apparent animosity towards the regular movement of air. Times political reporter Michael Barbaro, in pressing him to expound on his plans to keep the office of the president separate from his business interests, alluded to a meeting between Trump and Nigel Farage about wind farms. Trump’s baffling response to the question:

Was I involved with the wind farms recently? Or, not that I know of. I mean, I have a problem with wind…
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Oh, I see. I might have brought it up. But not having to do with me, just I mean, the wind is a very deceiving thing. First of all, we don’t make the windmills in the United States. They’re made in Germany and Japan. They’re made out of massive amounts of steel, which goes into the atmosphere. The windmills kill birds and the windmills need massive subsidies.

So Trump thinks the manufacture of windmills puts steel into the atmosphere, for some reason. He hates that they kill birds, and he hates that they’re not made in America. Thomas Friedman was happy to point out, “(GE) has a big wind turbine factory in South Carolina. Just so you know.”

Trump ended his rant on the dangers posed by wind with the words, “I don’t care about anything having to do with anything having to do with anything other than the country.” You’d think that this quote is some sort of error, since it doesn’t make sense, but according to the Times that’s what Trump said.

http://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-the-wind-is-a-very-deceiving-thing-1789306174

He makes Reagan or Dubya sound like science professors. That's a man who has never even tried to understand climate science - he just takes the opinion of someone who's got his ear (eg "renewables are bad for American business&quot and says things at random, basically saying "I don't understand it, so I assume it's not a problem".