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Trump ranted about wind energy, describing it as something whose appeal he 'never understood' despite having 'studied it better than anybody'

lol...

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-never-understood-wind-energy-despite-studying-it-2019-12

Trump argued that windmills were "noisy" and "kill the birds," and he was critical of the fact that many were built outside the US as he repeated his long-standing distaste for the renewable-energy source.

"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I've studied it better than anybody I know. It's very expensive. They're made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none," he said.

Trump also criticized the manufacturing process of the wind turbines as creating "fumes":

"But they're manufactured tremendous — if you're into this — tremendous fumes. 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's in China, Germany, it's going into the air. It's our air, their air, everything — right?"