Perpetually unaware and refusing to be held back by facts, Donald Trump mourned a long-dead Israeli falcon as a bald eagle, to disparage the wind.
Talk about being gone with the wind. Unable to identify a bald eagle, Trump saw an old photo of a dead bird and decided it was further proof that windmills are evil. Like Don Quixote, but dumber, the Donald will tilt at anything that blows.
Unfortunately for Trump’s effort to sow outrage among American patriots at what he proclaimed to be an image of the national bird laid low, closer inspection reveals the photograph does not show a bald eagle and was not taken in the United States. The image actually shows a falcon that was killed at a wind farm in Israel eight years ago.
In his rush to post the image on his social media platform, Trump overlooked a pair of visual clues that might have given him pause. The first is that the bird is missing the distinctive markings of a bald eagle. The second is that the turbine blamed for its death appears to have Hebrew writing on it.
A quick survey of Israeli wind farms blamed for bird deaths reveals that the image in question was indeed taken by Hedy Ben Eliahou, an employee of Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority, and was featured in a 2017 report in Haaretz, the Tel Aviv news outlet.
The Orange Menace’s dementia has placed his hatred of windmills so front and center that everything he sees is proof that the natural force is evil. Aside from an issue with his Scottish golf club being near wind turbines, he did not enjoy them; it seems the rest of his hatred for this particular form of clean energy is related to his rapid decline.
Cars, skyscrapers and house cats kill more birds (each) than windmills.
Maybe the orange one doesn’t understand how they work and therefore has an irrational fear of the technology. Too bad he is in a position to affect our energy policies. We fall behind while more rational people improve their lives.