{"id":224847,"date":"2026-01-03T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:46:09","slug":"trump-79-starts-bizarre-bald-eagle-crusade-in-bid-to-move-on-from-health-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224847\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, 79, Starts Bizarre Bald Eagle Crusade in Bid to Move on From Health Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump apparently wants the American public to know that the real crisis facing the nation is not his health, but the prospect of millions of dead bald eagles.<\/p>\n

Soon after insisting<\/a> on Truth Social early Friday that he\u2019s in \u201cPERFECT\u201d condition despite reports suggesting the contrary, the president quickly pivoted to one of his favorite topics\u2014wind turbines killing birds.<\/p>\n

He amplified a months-old Fox News<\/a> article about federal penalties against a wind operator, sharing<\/a> a link with the caption: \u201cGreen energy company in the hot seat after bald eagles knocked out of the skies.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Nov. 3 report, one eagle was discovered in Nebraska in March 2024, and a necropsy concluded a turbine collision had caused the fatality. A second bald eagle was found in Illinois on April 18, 2025, about 200 yards from a turbine, with necropsy results described as consistent with another crash.<\/p>\n

About 25 minutes after his first post, Trump took things up a notch\u2014without adding any new evidence\u2014writing<\/a>: \u201cKilling birds by the millions!\u201d above an image of a turbine surrounded by a flock in flight.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Donald Trump returned to a favorite topic after he gave an interview about his poor health\u2014wind turbines killing eagles. \/ Truth Social<\/p>\n

He then added a third<\/a> a minute later with a photo of a dead eagle next to a turbine, which he captioned, \u201cEagles going down!\u201d before he moved on to posting about \u201cbeautiful\u201d buildings<\/a> and the \u201cbenefit\u201d of tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s three-post burst came hours after he tried to swat away health concerns in a separate Truth Social message, declaring that White House doctors had deemed him in \u201cPERFECT HEALTH\u201d and that he \u201cACED\u201d a cognitive exam \u201cfor the third straight time.\u201d<\/p>\n

That came after he gave an exclusive Wall Street Journal<\/a> interview about his various ailments, which led to countless follow-up news reports and created more questions than it answered<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Trump<\/p>\n

Trump has bald eagles on the brain. \/ MANDEL NGAN \/ Mandel NGAN \/ AFP<\/p>\n

Trump has long used bald eagles as the patriotic mascot for his windmill vendetta, repeatedly claiming turbines are wiping them out and sharing dramatic imagery to prove it.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s not always accurate in his claims.<\/p>\n

It was reported<\/a> on Dec. 31 that he had attached the wrong image to a previous anti-windmill post\u2014one showing a falcon, with a windmill in Israel, from an incident that occurred at least eight years earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cDozy Don doesn\u2019t know what America\u2019s bird looks like???\u201d California Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s press team posted<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump apparently wants the American public to know that the real crisis facing the nation is not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[115758,969,61,60,115759,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-224847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bald-eagles","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-killing-birds","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}