Why the Trump administration is paying billions to abandon wind farms

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O73_qd8YQus

Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 of them

Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 of them

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2026/mar/05/pictures-china-wind-farms-trump

 

Trump suffers major losses in his war on offshore wind - POLITICO

The administration's arguments that offshore wind farms present a national security risk failed to convince judges in three separate courts...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/18/trump-offshore-wind-problems-00734850

 

More on Trump’s crooked scheme to shut down wind farms.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cjrMpOw_8Ow

 

Trump officials halt offshore wind-farm projects over ‘national security risks’

All of the projects were reviewed and approved under Joe Biden's administration, which found there were no undue national security concerns raised by the developments. Democrats have pointed to two assessments by the Pentagon of Revolution Wind that found the project "would not have adverse impacts to DoD missions in the area"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/22/trump-wind-farms

 

Trump Claimed ​Wind Farms Kill Whales—and Then Quietly Axed Research Into the Issue – Mother Jones

"I've got save-the-whale folks saying, ​'Why do you have 192 whale groundings on the beaches of New England?''" said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, at an event on Monday hosted by the American Petroleum Institute. He said he was paying attention to people claiming that humpbacks, rights, and other whale species started stranding en masse when ​"we started building these things," referring to turbines. 

No evidence supports these claims. In fact, Tuesday's news that the North Atlantic right whale population grew by about 2% from 2023 to 2024 may be the strongest rebuke of Burgum's statements. That time period coincided with the busiest time for U.S. offshore wind farm construction to date...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/trump-claims-whale-deaths-windmills-offshore-wind-farms-research-cuts-north-atlantic-right/

No, Wind Farms Aren’t ‘Driving Whales Crazy’ - The New York Times

Donald Trump has attacked President Biden's climate and energy policies with gusto, but many of his criticisms are simply untrue...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/climate/trump-clean-energy-fact-check.html

Trump claims that wind farms cause cancer for very Trumpian reasons - The Washington Post

For the uninitiated, President Trump’s comments about wind energy at a Republican fundraising dinner Tuesday night must have seemed like a non sequitur, at best...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/03/trump-claims-that-wind-farms-cause-cancer-very-trumpian-reasons/