I don't think it's corruption, I think Trump is just stupid and doesn't like windmills in the same way a five year old doesn't like green beans.

▲ idle_zealot 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That seems to he true of him personally, but don't let his incompetence blind you to the powerful people and organizations whispering in his ear and directing the mad king to their benefit.

▲ gpm 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issuing a stop work agency over bogus national security concerns when their actual desire was to gift Trump the lack of windmills is well within the definition of corruption.

▲ throwaway173738 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But who funded him? And why?

▲ JumpCrisscross 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I think Trump is just stupid and doesn't like windmills

Trump doesn't like windmills because his base hates windmills. They hate windmills because libs like them.

This isn't the five year old not liking green beans. It's the five year old seeing his sibling like them and then deciding--despite having no green beans on his plate, not being offered any--to spit in Mom's.

There are also energy interests at play. But from all appearance, those aren't controlling here. Trump hasn't given the energy lobby what they want, not substantially. He has leaned over backwards to please his base.

▲ defrost 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Trump has disliked windmills far longer than he has had a base.

  The Donald Trump who came to Scotland in 2006 to say he was building the world's greatest golf course was in many ways a different Donald Trump to the one now enjoying his second term in the White House.

~ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78nv0y89p6o

What followed was a saga;

  * Some of the land he bought was under protection as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The shifting sand dune system along that stretch of coast north of Aberdeen was regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind in the UK.

  * In 2012, he travelled to the Scottish Parliament to argue against a wind farm being built in the North Sea, within sight of his development.

He lost appeals against protection, he lost appeals against the "unsightly" wind farms, he was relentlessly mocked and protested against by the Scots, which hasn't ceased:

Jig of Slurs: A Musical Record of Scotland’s Best Insults to Trump - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NNWmZwObZc

Cockwomble is a delight for lovers of the language.

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JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Huh. Any idea why this wasn't a priority in his first term?

	▲	colechristensen 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Once again, he's like a toddler. I'm not trying to be vaguely insulting, he's best actually understood as someone with the psychology of a small child given tremendous wealth and power. You wouldn't ask why your toddler didn't scream about green beans last week but won't shut up about them today, that's just the kind of thing they do.

▲ ZeroGravitas 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep and Charlie Kirk just happened to believe that climate change was Marxism. And Putin coincidentally thinks wind power drives worms mad with vibrations. And Nigel Farage vowing to stop wind and solar. And AfD hating heat pumps.

It's all just random personal dislikes and not the best funded misinformation campaign the world has ever seen.

▲ fuzztester 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

nonsense. it's the exact opposite of what you think it is.

you are either not reading the news enough or are not able to understand it.

"Drill, baby, drill!"

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/iF17bGH65gU

from the description of that YouTube short:

Trump to Starmer: "Drill, Baby, Drill’ in North Sea to cut energy bills; Calls Wind ‘Expensive Joke

	▲	lucb1e 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		(Regarding that second sentence: attack the argument, not the person you're replying to.)