President Donald Trump is no fan of renewable power. But he reserves a special contempt for wind.

Massive wind turbines spinning over plains and coastal waters massacre birds, cause cancer in humans and drive whales “crazy,” he has said, in complaints stretching back years. They’re also, in his opinion, eyesores — particularly the ones installed against his will near his Aberdeen, Scotland, golf course.

So Trump has declared war on them.

His administration on Friday ordered work to stop on an offshore wind farm that is 80% complete off the coast of Rhode Island by Denmark’s Orsted A/S. It’s working to halt development of another project planned off the Maryland coast that was set to begin construction next year. And it already blocked a 231-turbine onshore project in Idaho this month.

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