The Washington Post’s Karen Heller examines President Donald Trump’s seemingly irrational hatred for “windmills”, more correctly called “wind turbines”, the fast-growing clean energy source that has been expanding around the world. Trump has attacked wind power as unsafe, unaffordable, and harmful to wildlife; even going so far as to claim that “noise” from the “windmills” causes cancer, an assertion dismissed by the medical community.
But where does this animosity originate? The origins of his obsession probably lie off of the coast of Scotland, but may also include a political calculation in his love of “clean, beautiful coal”. Does he truly hate the wind farms growing in windy regions around the planet, or is his strategy more clever?