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Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most expensi
« on: July 30, 2025, 12:07:13 pm »
Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most expensive form of energy. It’s no good. They’re made in China…they rust & rot’ – ‘The whole thing is a con job’
By Marc Morano
July 28, 2025
 
Trump’s key wind energy comments during Scotland trip July 27, 2025:

“And the other thing I say to Europe: We will will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States, they’re killing us,” Trump said. “They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains—I’m not talking about airplanes, I’m talking about beautiful plains.”

“Beautiful areas in the United States, and you look up and you see windmills all over the place. It’s a horrible thing,” he added.

“The whole thing is a con job,” he continued, before revisiting one of his favorite theories—that the noise from offshore windmills are killing whales.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/07/28/trump-sums-up-windmills-theyre-killing-the-beauty-of-our-scenery-its-the-most-expensive-form-of-energy-its-no-good-theyre-made-in-china-they-rust-rot-the-whole-thing-is-a-con/
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2025, 12:18:38 pm »
He's right. They're all over northern Iowa and are a nuisance and an eyesore.

One windmill in the right setting can look pretty cool, but just dotting the landscape for endless miles looks cluttered and ratty.
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2025, 12:59:12 pm »
I haven't been able to see the mountains in North Dakota since those things went up.

(Couldn't see them before, either) :shrug:
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2025, 01:22:10 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on July 30, 2025, 12:18:38 pm
He's right. They're all over northern Iowa and are a nuisance and an eyesore.

One windmill in the right setting can look pretty cool, but just dotting the landscape for endless miles looks cluttered and ratty.
nothing about the noise they generate is cool.

Ask whales swimming near them
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2025, 03:28:19 pm »
He is right about that. We say SO MANY of those darn things on our recent road trip adventure, and they were a horrible eyesore.
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2025, 03:46:13 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 30, 2025, 12:59:12 pm
I haven't been able to see the mountains in North Dakota since those things went up.

(Couldn't see them before, either) :shrug:

Not even the Turtles?
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2025, 05:39:48 pm »
They're all over the coast near Bay City! I hate them!
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2025, 05:41:28 pm »
They're killing our wallets and are an afront to our sanity.
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2025, 05:56:16 pm »
I wouldn't be surprised if many of the existing wind farms end up as "one and done".

That is, when the existing hardware wears out, they won't be replaced, but simply "abandoned in place".

The public will probably have to bear the cost of dismantling them and burying the wreckage...

(Same for the solar "farms"...)
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2025, 09:01:01 pm »
Wind farms have a colossal carbon footprint. A single turbine can have more than 750 cubic yards of concrete and 175 tons of reinforcing rebar in its base.
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Re: Trump accurately sums up windmills: ‘They’re killing the beauty of our scenery…It’s the most exp
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2025, 09:09:44 pm »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on July 30, 2025, 03:46:13 pm
Not even the Turtles?
I haven't been over to the Bottineau area in a while.
I worked a couple wells near Flaxton a couple years ago...
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