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    [OC] Number of Interviews or Speeches Where Trump Talks About Windmills
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    [OC] Number of Interviews or Speeches Where Trump Talks About Windmills


    "I would say this, they've got to stop with the windmills."

    -Donald Trump in response to Britain's economy being hurt by the Iran war

    Donald Trump has had a fascination–some may some a strange obsession–with windmills. Whether talking about how "ugly" they are, how "dangerous" they might be for our health, or the many "millions" of birds that he purports they kill a year, he is arguably as inseparable from the windmill as is the entire country of the Netherlands.

    So I found the data to share.

    I used Roll Call's archive of speeches and interviews to map out all of those events where he pivots to talk about the mighty windmill. Then using Tableau, I made a bar chart to track this data.

    Not included are the 158 Tweets or Truth Social posts (since 2016) about windmills, wind turbines, and the wind (posts about the actual weather for things like hurricanes were excluded in that count).

    The "South Park" font choice seemed pretty dumb, which is how I felt after having spent the time researching this important subject.

    Posted by shinyro

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    25 Comments

    3. Pleasethelions on

      With Operation Epic Failure Trump has really made a good case against windmills.

      Plan working perfectly.

    5. shortercrust on

      It’s only the middle of April so it’s looking good for a new record in 2026!

    7. Boris_Ignatievich on

      he’s really never got over those offshore turbines being visible from his silly little golf course has he?

    8. Wermine on

      >or the many “millions” of birds that he purports they kill a year

      Windmills do kill around a million birds per year. But to put it in perspective, cats kill 4000 times more birds per year in USA. That’s 4 billion birds.

    9. Qweasdy on

      To correct his mistake they’re actually called wind turbines, not windmills, they don’t mill anything. If on the off chance he doesn’t get around to reading this can someone please pass it on to him for me?

    10. TBCid on

      In 2015 he lost a court case and an offshore wind farm was built in sight of his golf course in Scotland. He’s still mad about it.

    12. Cirno-BreastLicker on

      The problem with Windmills is they dont causes our fish to be full of mercury the same way as burning coal does. How are we supposed to poison people and enviorment with clean energy >:(

    14. calguy1955 on

      I’m glad he’s gotten over his obsession with low flow shower heads and toilets for the time being.

    16. tawzerozero on

      Only notes would be that it would be appropriate to project a 2026 total based on the current rate. Otherwise, 10/10.

    18. ToddBradley on

      I know this is somewhat off-topic, but the Trump era really makes me worry what’s in store for me when I get dementia in old age. What random thing am I going to be unhealthily obsessed about as my mental health and acuity decline? Arby’s roast beef? The fact that the TV clicker doesn’t actually click anymore? Ethnic Greenlanders?

    19. j____b____ on

      “ Donald Trump’s legal battles against Scottish wind farms, primarily challenging an 11-turbine project near his Aberdeen golf course, spanned from 2012 to 2019. After losing multiple appeals, including at the UK Supreme Court in 2015, the Trump Organization was ordered to pay legal costs in 2019, settling for $290,000.” -WaPo

    21. twilighttwister on

      Maybe he’s so weird about it because to him wind is often followed by brown stains in his pants.

    24. RandomLettersJDIKVE on

      Would love to see this as a proportion of his speeches. There were a few blessed years where we didn’t have to listen to him much.

    25. Intol3rance on

      I’m in radiation oncology and I still haven’t treated a patient for “windmill cancer.”