President Donald Trump has lashed out at his old nemesis, renewable energy, in a bizarre rant involving “windmills” and birds supposedly getting fried on solar panels.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, the president argued that the U.K. should drill for oil in the North Sea instead of investing in green energy.
“It’s such a valuable asset and instead, they’re putting these stupid windmills all over the place,” Trump said. “Every time you put up a windmill, it costs the country millions of dollars a year to have that horrible thing turn. It’s ugly, it’s bad for the environment, it kills the birds, and beyond that it costs a fortune.”
The 79-year-old president then turned his attention to black plastic solar panels that he said “take up all the farmland.”
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