Trump Trashes Windmills

President Donald Trump said Sunday that not a single wind turbine would be built in the United States under his administration.
Trump pummeled the green energy source for its inefficiency and risks to the environment, and he pointed out that the market for wind turbines is dominated by one of the United States’ chief geopolitical adversaries, China. He called the wind industry a “con job.”
“The other thing I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains,” Trump told reporters on Sunday. “It’s the most expensive form of energy. It’s no good. They’re made in China, almost all of them.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sat beside the president during his attack on wind energy. Von der Leyen, who is from Germany, has supported wind energy and renewables generally as her country’s energy prices have skyrocketed under its “Energiewende,” an attempt to transition Germany’s power grid from fossil fuels and nuclear energy to renewables.
“In all fairness, Germany tried it, and wind doesn’t work. You need subsidy for wind, and energy should not need subsidy. With energy you make money, you don’t lose money,” said Trump.

Trump appeared especially aggravated at wind turbines on Sunday after he played a round of golf at his Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland. He mentioned that he was able to see a cluster of nine turbines from his course that ruined the view.
“You have the same thing all over, all over Europe, in particular. You have windmills all over the place,” said Trump. “Some of the countries prohibit it, but people ought to know that these windmills are very destructive. They’re environmentally unsound.”
The president called environmentalists pushing for widespread adoption of wind energy “hacks.”
Trump’s dislike of wind turbines dates back over a decade when, before his career in politics began, he engaged in a high-profile fight to keep wind turbines from appearing offshore in sight from another of his Scottish golf courses, Trump International Scotland near Aberdeen.
In 2011, Trump in a letter complained to then-Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond about the plans to erect the wind turbines. Trump called the planned project an “ugly cloud … hanging over the future of the great Scottish coastline.”

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The European Union Threatens Musk Over Trump Interview; Musk Fires Back With Meme.

The European Union threatened X owner Elon Musk on Monday ahead of his interview with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, warning that he needs to censor potentially “harmful content” or else his company could be punished.
EU industry chief Thierry Breton said in his letter that the warning was being made because users on X promoted content on the social media platform about the disturbing events that have been unfolding in the United Kingdom surrounding migrants and large Muslim gangs.
“I am compelled to remind you of the due diligence obligations set out in the Digital Services Act (DSA),” Breton said. “As the individual entity ultimately controlling a platform with over 300 million users worldwide, of which one third in the EU, that has been designated as a Very Large Online Platform, you have the legal obligation to ensure X’s compliance with EU law and in particular the DSA in the EU.”
Breton said that X must make sure “effective mitigation measures are put in place regarding the amplification of harmful content in connection with relevant events, including live streaming, which, if unaddressed, might increase the risk profile of X and generate detrimental effects on civic discourse and public security.”
“This is important against the background of recent examples of public unrest brought about by the amplification of content that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation,” he added.
Breton noted that the EU already has a case against X and that if Musk does not take steps to restrict free speech in his interview with Trump that the EU could add evidence against him in the case.
“As the relevant content is accessible to EU users and being amplified also in our jurisdiction, we cannot exclude potential spillovers in the EU,” he said. “Therefore, we are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political – or societal – events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.”
Musk fired back with a response aimed directly at Breton’s post on X where Breton posted the letter.
“To be honest, I really wanted to respond with this Tropic Thunder meme, but I would NEVER do something so rude & irresponsible!” Musk wrote.
Musk included the meme that showed a line from the “Tropic Thunder” movie that said: “Take a big step back and literally f**k your own face!”

(I have no idea what “Tropic Thunder” is but I avoid Hollywood crapola like the plague.)

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