Donald Trump has vowed to immediately halt offshore wind energy projects on day one of a new term as US president, in his most explicit threat yet to the industry and the latest in a series of promises to undo key aspects of the transition to cleaner energy.
Trump repeated false accusations about wind projects as being lethal to whales during a rally on Saturday in Wildwood, a resort city on New Jerseys coast, promising to stamp out an industry that has been enthusiastically backed by Joe Biden.
We are going to make sure that that ends on day one, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for Novembers presidential election, said of the offshore wind farms. Im going to write it out in an executive order. Its going to end on day one.
They destroy everything, theyre horrible, the most expensive energy there is, Trump said of the wind turbines. They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales.
I hate wind, he reportedly told a recent fundraising dinner with oil industry executives in which he vowed to scrap various environmental rules, once elected, if he was provided with $1bn in campaign donations.
If I were in the offshore wind industry, I would probably be pretty, pretty nervous, a former Trump administration energy official told the Washington Post.
Republicans want gas prices to go up?
Republicans want gas prices to go up?
Trump: "I'm going to make everything worse!"
Conservatives: "Yay!"
Yes. Their supporters will just blame Biden/liberals/the woke somehow.
To be fair he has 'studied it better than anybody', but alas 'doesn't know wind very much'.
https://youtu.be/ec9P3C1OXqE
It's a sick joke that people get all hot and bothered over Biden's stumbles, while voting for this permanently confused half wit.
they kill the whales.
Does he envision the blades underwater? The whales jumping that high out of the water? Does he think any structure with a column in the water (bridge, off short oil rig, etc) kill whales? I have so many follow up questions that he's definitely never thought about as he just word vomits whatever excuse comes to him first.It doesn't matter if he actually thinks it. His fanbase unequivocally believes it if he says it and that's all that matters.
Anti-Biden bros still have yet to explain how Biden is the same as this fat fuck.Him old.
So he wants to kill a bunch of jobs, while he become a dictator.
They'll be fine. Trump will perform a miracle and create a boom in the coal mining business.He didn't the first time around, not sure how he would a second time. He'll probably kill more of those.
Good Guy Trump trying to save us all from getting Windmill Cancercorrect!
This is the kind of shit I'd expect Hoggish Greedly to spout, not a former and potential future president of the United States.
We should consolidate all these "on day 1" topics as he keeps dropping them every day.He claim all he wants to be is dictator on day one, but based on all the stuff he saying he wants to do, and him working less than half a work day, you know he will extend it to day 2 - his lifetime.
Just to bullet point his incoming dictatorship's agenda.
Hopefully as enough of a warning to voters.
if he was provided with $1bn in campaign donations.
Does he envision the blades underwater? The whales jumping that high out of the water? Does he think any structure with a column in the water (bridge, off short oil rig, etc) kill whales? I have so many follow up questions that he's definitely never thought about as he just word vomits whatever excuse comes to him first.Reality is irrelevant when theres
Trump absolutely would hunt whales with dynamite if he was allowed to.I think I see his overall plan now. He'll claim that without windfarms the population of whales has exploded, and thus make dynamite hunting them legal.
He didn't the first time around, not sure how he would a second time. He'll probably kill more of those.