# What's the deal with Trump and Windmills? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 18, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398 "2022-10-18T01:25:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/1 "2022-10-18T01:25:12Z")
According to this tweet… “Whoever does public relations work for this garbage has done an incredible job,” Trump says, after a long rant about wind turbines getting a “puff piece” on 60 Minutes. There are few constants in Trump’s world, but his hatred of windmills is fierce and consistent. Why does he hate windmills? What did they ever do to him? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/2 "2022-10-18T01:29:13Z")
He thought offshore windmills ruined the view from his Scottish golf course. That’s it. That’s the whole reason. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/3 "2022-10-18T01:43:09Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > He thought offshore windmills ruined the view from his Scottish golf course. That’s it. That’s the whole reason. - I would imagine he’s dimly aware it’s clean energy and that’s not in keeping with conservative “principles”. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/4 "2022-10-18T01:46:59Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I would imagine he’s dimly aware it’s clean energy and that’s not in keeping with conservative “principles”. I kind of assumed it had something to do with his oil producer friends, but the golf course thing somehow makes sense to me too. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/5 "2022-10-18T02:05:01Z")
They make him tilt. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/6 "2022-10-18T02:06:11Z")
Windmills are where monsters go to die… [https://i1.wp.com/halloweenshindig.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/frank\_windmill1.gif](https://i1.wp.com/halloweenshindig.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/frank_windmill1.gif) ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/7 "2022-10-18T02:07:34Z")
[![](https://i.redd.it/6j7a25b5o3821.png) ](https://i.redd.it/6j7a25b5o3821.png) WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/8 "2022-10-18T02:10:54Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > He thought offshore windmills ruined the view from his Scottish golf course. That’s it. That’s the whole reason. The important thing was that he asked to have them removed and was told no. He really hates the n word. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/9 "2022-10-18T02:21:53Z")
I bet he secretly loves the n word… ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/10 "2022-10-18T02:45:28Z")
Oh, he hates the n word. It’s the N word he loves. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/11 "2022-10-18T03:32:20Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > he asked to have them removed “asked” ? _Really?_ “_asked_” ? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/12 "2022-10-18T03:48:54Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > > [@Folly](#): > > > > He thought offshore windmills ruined the view from his Scottish golf course. That’s it. That’s the whole reason. > > The important thing was that he asked to have them removed and was told no. He really hates the n word. It’s not even so much the fact that he was told no, just that it proved he had no influence (let alone power) in Scotland or the UK. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/13 "2022-10-18T06:23:57Z")
> **[Russell Brand Reveals The Real Reason Why Donald Trump Is Against Wind Farms](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/russell-brand-donald-trump-wind-farms_n_7557380/)** > > Russell Brand Reveals The Real Reason Why Donald Trump Is Against Wind Farms ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/14 "2022-10-18T10:50:14Z")
trump feels badly for all the unfortunate people who’ve gotten cancer from the sound of wind turbines. his hatred of windmills is downright quixotic. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/15 "2022-10-18T11:22:25Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > Why does he hate windmills? What did they ever do to him? Windmills are a clean, renewable source of energy. That is in the realm of “democratic liberal”, so he hates it. If Christ came back to earth, Trump would crucify him again because he is a liberal socialist. That’s who he is. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/16 "2022-10-18T12:55:11Z")
Thanks, everyone. I knew there must be a reason, however insane it might be. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/17 "2022-10-18T13:03:37Z")
Wasn’t there also something about all the birds they supposedly kill? Or maybe that was just a “reason” he came up with after he had already established his position on windmills. (As if he gives a rat’s ass about dead birds.) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/18 "2022-10-18T13:13:23Z")
And Dulcinea wouldn’t put out for him? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/19 "2022-10-18T13:29:40Z")
This is a gratuitous insult on an honorable Spanish hidalgo, retract it or be prepared to offer satisfaction in the field good sir! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398/20 "2022-10-18T13:29:58Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > I kind of assumed it had something to do with his oil producer friends, but the golf course thing somehow makes sense to me too. Probably not. A lot of them (the big corporate ones, anyway) are likely involved in wind farm (and other ‘green’ energy projects) as well. Even if oil and gas are their bread and butter, the major players all realize they need a fig leaf and that means investment in wind. They love the PR of supporting wind and solar and so on as long as it doesn’t interfere with the rigs. For Trump, this is more or less about NIMBYism and being told no. Same reason it’s taken so long to get any traction for wind projects off Nantucket Island or Martha’s Vineyard. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trump-and-windmills/973398.md?page=2)