# The Donald Trump 2024 Campaign Thread (Primary Edition) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 15, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970 "2022-11-15T18:18:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/401 "2023-01-28T17:04:23Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, I actually saw evidence of an official Trump 2024 campaign message, right here in San Antonio. It was a bit more relevant to another thread, so the story is there instead of here: > [@A Thread for the Mueller Investigation Results and Outcomes (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-2/946549/48): > > Lots of places I could put this - my Uber thread, my Toastmasters thread, hell, it’s even tangential to my Trump Campaign thread. But since it references the podcast linked above, what the hell, I’ll put it here. Rainy morning in San Antonio. Got done with my work for the day early (like 9am early), just sitting here bored, not wanting to do anything. So I turn on Uber, see if I can make a few dollars, and I get an immediate call - pick up Irv close by at Safelite Glass, then take him to home t… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/402 "2023-01-28T21:51:22Z")
There’s a hilarious article in _Rolling Stone_ about Mr. Trump kicking off the 2023 season _a la_ Don Quixote. > **[Trump Hits the 2024 Campaign Trail With an Assault on … Windmills?](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-2024-campaign-trail-new-hampshire-windmills-1234670274/)** > > The former president claimed wind power will “destroy our planes and beautiful oceans and seas and everything else” ~Max ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/403 "2023-01-29T16:52:00Z")
That is truly hilarious. It can’t be a coincidence, can it? Maybe one of his advisors has read Cervantes. Nahhh….can’t be. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/404 "2023-01-29T22:04:01Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > That is truly hilarious. It can’t be a coincidence, can it? Maybe one of his advisors has read Cervantes. Nahhh….can’t be. … You’re right–it can’t be. His advisors MAY have suggested Trump hit the “windmills” theme, but that’s nothing to do with being literate. It’s because The Base associates modern windmills with the hated Elite (Coastal, even), and love any bashing of the projects and goals of that Elite. _How dare them stupid edicated libruls, with all their stupid science and hatred for good American oil, sneer at me!?! I’ll show them—I’ll see that Trump becomes President again_, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/405 "2023-01-29T22:05:55Z")
And lest anyone doubt that Donald is still greatly beloved by all too many voters, we had this display: > Another tweet, which I can’t locate at the moment, showed one of the employees asking Donald if she could pray for him; she proceeded to pray that he be returned to the Presidency (while he groped her shoulder.) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/406 "2023-01-30T18:30:40Z")
Don’t be silly. Mr. Trump declared a personal vendetta on wind power when a wind farm was built next to his golf course. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/407 "2023-01-30T20:32:14Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > Don’t be silly. Mr. Trump declared a personal vendetta on wind power when a wind farm was built next to his golf course. I don’t understand why people can’t see the beauty of these wind farms. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/408 "2023-01-30T23:43:32Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > Don’t be silly. Mr. Trump declared a personal vendetta on wind power when a wind farm was built next to his golf course. > > ~Max Yes, of course. But how does _that_ fact stop right-wingers from portraying modern windmills as “elitist” and from appealing to The Base’s dislike of science, non-oil energy etc. (as I asserted in the post to which your replied?) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/409 "2023-02-15T17:11:12Z")
Nikki’s in, having promised less than two years ago not to run against him:. > **[The promise and perils of Nikki Haley's White House run](https://www.aol.com/news/promise-perils-nikki-haleys-white-230715599.html)** > > Former South Carolina governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for the White House Tuesday with a video playing to her foreign policy bona fides and stature as a woman of color in the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/410 "2023-02-15T17:15:59Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > > wind power will “destroy our planes and beautiful oceans and seas and everything else” I’m torn between morbid curiosity how he dragged planes into it, and disgusted revulsion at the thought of listening to him any more than absolutely necessary. Did he just have a brain fart and think, “Birds, planes; what’s the difference?”? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/411 "2023-02-15T17:23:39Z")
Did he maybe mean _plains?_ ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/412 "2023-02-15T17:43:04Z")
I’m surprised he didn’t say that they would make the world to windy. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/413 "2023-02-15T17:47:40Z")
Yes, Europe is just a post-turbine wasteland. [![](https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/windmillscopenhagen_600x600_3.jpg) ](https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/windmillscopenhagen_600x600_3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/414 "2023-02-15T17:49:44Z")
Not a plane to be seen! Those poor people, reduced to using boats! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/415 "2023-02-15T18:46:09Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I’m surprised he didn’t say that they would make the world to windy. Windmills do not work that way! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/416 "2023-02-15T18:52:36Z")
…but Donald Trump does. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/417 "2023-02-15T20:54:03Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Windmills do not work that way! I hope you realize that I understand that of course. I very much doubt that Trump does. Trumps understanding of facts or ANY type of engineering stops at how to tie his shoes. If he can even do that. Of course it all comes down to whos pocket Trump is in. And who has their hands in Trumps pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/418 "2023-02-15T21:29:47Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PmDVHs-juPo/hqdefault.jpg "Windmills do not work that way!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDVHs-juPo) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/419 "2023-02-16T00:08:07Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I’m torn between morbid curiosity how he dragged planes into it, and disgusted revulsion at the thought of listening to him any more than absolutely necessary. If you put a wind turbine on a flat plane, you ruin the uniformity of that plane. It stands out like a… Well, like a wind turbine. This seems like a valid complaint to me. I’m not sure why it would matter, it’s more of an academic argument. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/420 "2023-02-16T00:57:42Z")
She _also_ called him to asked him permission, as I understand it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970.md?page=22)