Trump took aim at the UK over one of his long-running vendettas, in an unhinged rant that bore little resemblance to reality
18:22, 26 Aug 2025Updated 21:26, 26 Aug 2025
Trump took aim at the UK in an unusual broadside at an ally(Image: AP)
Donald Trump went on an unhinged rant about the UK during a televised cabinet meeting.
The US President vented about his long-running vendetta about wind farms – singling out the UK as letting windmills “ruin” the country.
He claimed the cost of energy in the UK is “through the roof” because of the use of wind energy, which is untrue.
Trump has hated wind farms since the Scottish Government allowed one to be built offshore near one of his golf courses in the mid 2010s.
He frequently brings up the topic, sharing wild conspiracy theories about windmills killing whales, which they do not.
Scientists have attributed an increase in whale deaths in recent years to warming oceans, caused in turn by climate change.
Energy generated by wind farms is significantly cheaper than nuclear, gas or coal.
Among the UK public, surveys suggest wind power is the second most popular energy generation method, close behind nuclear.
Fossil fuels are by far the least popular methods among those polled in YouGov’s tracker.
In an unusual public broadside against an ally, Trump sad: “Windmills we’re not going to allow them. They’re ruining our country. They’re ruining every country.
“If you look at – I hate to mention countries but you look at the UK, what’s happened in the UK they have energy costs through the roof, it’s because of wind.”
None of this is true.
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He added: “They want everything, close up the northern parts of the country they have oil it’s tremendous and they closed it up…I tell them they’re my friends, but man you’re going to have a bad awakening pretty soon.”
Earlier in the cabinet meeting Trump appeared awestruck by a rendering of a server farm proposed by Meta that is almost as large as the island of Manhattan.
A moment later he complained that solar farms are bad because they take up too much space.
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