President Donald Trump sparked ire on Tuesday after he spread yet another conspiracy theory, this time about wind farms.
Twitter users berated Trump after he claimed at a National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner that “they say the noise” from the turbines causes cancer.
Check out the clip here:
Trump attacking wind power is nothing new. But, as Jonathan Chait at New York magazine explained, the noise made by their turbines does not cause cancer.
Tweeters were quick to pile on Trump over his latest untruth:
Wind turbine noise causes cancer.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 3, 2019
There are entire internet communities that spend hours upon hours cooking up vast and complicated narratives where Donald Trump is a mastermind orchestrating world affairs. They edit videos. For hours.
....okay i just HAVE to reference this now pic.twitter.com/QpRW6LMMyY
— i taught the toaster to feel love! (@platypusbunny) April 3, 2019
Things Trump sincerely believes:
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 3, 2019
1. Exercise is bad for you
2. Noise from wind farms causes cancer
3. Global warming is a hoax
He’s the most powerful man on earth
It’s just totally weird that the president casually suggest that the noise from wind farms could cause cancer and NO ONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS IN 24 HOURS!
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 3, 2019
I am definitely not getting into the cancer thing (what?) but it was just 2 weeks ago that Danish researchers found no significant relationship between wind farms and heart attacks and strokes. https://t.co/putaQmGIqI
— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck) April 3, 2019
Ahh, yes. The noise (the noise!! 😳) from wind farms causes cancer but coal is all well & good, yeah? Mmmkay. 🙄 https://t.co/5ma6YgMRN8
— Tiya Sircar (@tiyasircar) April 3, 2019
This sounds like one of the lines when Ron Burgundy is talking about the meaning of San Diego https://t.co/6ORKssJNSn
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) April 3, 2019
Good thing I got some Beatscancer by Dre. https://t.co/gYfGGHsPAZ
— Bryan Luhn (@bryluhn) April 3, 2019
he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy https://t.co/TjARS9hwgS
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 3, 2019
How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see? https://t.co/JB1F3qsqe6
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) April 3, 2019
Get the Bose Cancer Cancelling headphones.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 3, 2019
What’s the opposite of hinged? https://t.co/3rJOl1NwMZ
— (((David Lytle))) (@davitydave) April 3, 2019
1) President's ongoing attacks on wind energy (he says tonight that turbines cause cancer) infuriates supporters in big wind states like Iowa and Texas
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) April 3, 2019
2) Trump has fought Scottish officials over turbines near his properties
The "wind turbines give you cancer" thing is such a deep cut in the conspiracy ecosystem, it's remarkable it navigated its way to Trump, who doesn't really use the internet other than to tweet.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 3, 2019
Whatever grapevine he heard this through must have some really wild stuff in it.
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