Donald Trump called into Fox News on Wednesday night, and the former president immediately launched into a rambling montage of his rally talking points from the past.
In one of the strangest moments of the interview, Trump revived his grievances against windmills, this time claiming they βkill everything.β
As president, Trump repeatedly griped about windmills, and at one point even claimed β falsely β that they cause cancer.
In reality, his main problem with wind turbines is that he thought an offshore wind farm would ruin the view from his golf resort in Scotland. He sued to stop it from being built, but he lost. The turbines were constructed, and Trump has held a grudge ever since.
βTheyβre making windmills all over the place, to ruin our land and kill our birds,β he said Wednesday. βTo kill everything.β
That line just about slayed his critics on Twitter:
It's true a windmill just killed me https://t.co/96bDRu4ZQK
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) June 17, 2021
I have been killed by a windmill three times this week alone. https://t.co/EDEKkClnvc
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) June 17, 2021
It's true. Last time I saw a windmill there was nothing left living in a hundred miles. Then I died. https://t.co/Ff0FXWNZQf
— Khashoggiβs Ghost (@UROCKlive1) June 17, 2021
Windmills killed my parents in front of me and that's why I became Batman https://t.co/L1XFDIqsjh
— Martin Wallace (@Aliteraryshadow) June 17, 2021
What is Biden doing about WINDMILL CANCER
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 17, 2021
Hannity is a perfect Sancho Panza. https://t.co/mGv923IqI9
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 17, 2021
The former guy, whose incompetence led to 500,000 American deaths from COVID on his watch, claims that windmills βkill everything.βπ https://t.co/SWvlmpfWz3
— Dena Grayson, MD, PhD (@DrDenaGrayson) June 17, 2021
We should ban the type of windmills that kill the land. https://t.co/EscYQbdkx9
— πππ ππππππͺ (@timqfadvice) June 17, 2021
"Windmills kill everything." - Donald Trump, today, while decompensating
— Duty To Warn π (@duty2warn) June 17, 2021
It's like a Time/Life infomercial for the old hits at 3am on NBCSN https://t.co/M7xBBWemSX
— Joe Remi (@JoeOfTheNorth) June 17, 2021
Yup, it was the windmills that did me in https://t.co/mIBhsiMD2T
— πΈοΈπ·οΈ Azure Ghost π·οΈπΈοΈ (@AzureGhost) June 17, 2021
I guess this explains all the dead folks in Holland. π³ https://t.co/RKbuzuOEOq pic.twitter.com/ptWpmD1l3a
— Frank Dugan πππ (@frankdugan) June 17, 2021
fun fact: in the US, cats kill ~2 billion birds every year https://t.co/WE3nrwsE4n
— sam deutsch (@samdman95) June 17, 2021
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