{"id":42034,"date":"2025-07-28T06:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/42034\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:53:14","slug":"trump-tilts-at-windmills-that-ruin-view-from-his-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/42034\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tilts at \u2018windmills\u2019 that ruin view from his golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump has claimed that wind turbines are an ecological \u201ccon job\u201d blighting the countryside, killing birds and driving whales \u201cloco\u201d.<\/p>\n

During a press conference with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, he said: \u201cI say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They\u2019re killing us. They\u2019re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the third day of his visit to Scotland<\/a>, Trump said that the wind turbines had ruined the view from the 18th hole of his Ayrshire golf course.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

President Trump met the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Turnberry<\/p>\n

JACQUELYN MARTIN\/AP<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I\u2019m playing the best course, I think, in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cTurnberry, even though I own it, it\u2019s probably the best course in the world. And I look over the horizon and I see nine windmills. It\u2019s like, \u2018Great, at the end of the 18th\u2019. I said, \u2018Isn\u2019t that a shame?\u2019 What a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt\u2019s the most expensive form of energy. They\u2019re made in China, almost all of them. When they start to rust and rot in eight years you can\u2019t really turn them off, you can\u2019t burn them. They won\u2019t let you bury the propellers, the props, because there\u2019s a certain type of fibre that doesn\u2019t go well with the land.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what they say. The environmentalists say you can\u2019t bury them because the fibre doesn\u2019t go well with the land. In other words, if you bury it, it will harm our soil. The whole thing is a con job.\u201d<\/p>\n

He claimed the turbines<\/a> were being peddled by \u201cenvironmental hacks\u201d but were not ecologically friendly as the fibres from which they are made do not break down. Trump also declared that wind turbines harmed nature with their noise and killed birds that were struck by the blades.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt kills the birds. They\u2019re noisy. You know, you have a certain place in the Massachusetts area that over the last 20 years had one or two whales wash ashore and over the last short period of time they had 18, because it\u2019s driving them loco,\u201d he went on. \u201cIt\u2019s driving them crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump has claimed that wind turbines are an ecological \u201ccon job\u201d blighting the countryside, killing birds and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-42034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}