Why does Trump hate wind power?

His animus toward wind turbines—which he calls “windmills”—dates to 2011, when the Scottish government announced plans to build an 11-turbine wind farm about a mile out to sea from Trump’s luxury Aberdeenshire golf course. The “big, ugly structures,” Trump said, will ruin the view for golfers and “lead to the almost total destruction of Scotland’s tourism industry.” He lost his legal battle against the project, the blades of which are now barely visible from his course, but acquired an abiding hatred of wind turbines. Trump has since claimed, without evidence, that their whirring noise “causes cancer ” and leads people and whales to go “crazy,” and that their blades are killing “all the birds.” A 2020 study found that collisions with turbines do kill abou

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