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OKIsItJustMe

(21,510 posts)
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 06:43 PM Friday

Trump says Europe needs to 'stop the windmills' and better limit immigration

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-25-2025#00000198-4318-d504-addc-53df98620000
Trump says Europe needs to ‘stop the windmills’ and better limit immigration

BY WILL WEISSERT

The president took questions after disembarking from Air Force One in Scotland, and said he had two messages for Europe: Stop building windmills and curb immigration.

“This immigration is killing Europe,” Trump said. “And the other thing, stop the windmills.”

He said wind power generation is “killing the beauty of your country.” Trump has spent years railing against windmills, and once unsuccessfully sued, claiming a nearby windfarm marred players’ view from one of his golf course in Scotland.

He bragged about cracking down on the U.S.-Mexico border and suggested that immigrants were reshaping Europe.



https://apnews.com/video/trump-misrepresents-facts-about-wind-power-519c02a4ee5d444785be8e8f355829ff
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underpants

(191,739 posts)
3. I think his big hassle for the golf course was windmill farms off shore
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 06:56 PM
Friday

He’s such an asshole.

underpants

(191,739 posts)
11. Thanks. He is such a superficial child.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:41 PM
Friday

Trump was furious at what he saw as the impact of the turbines on the experience of those playing his course and the Trump Organisation from 2011 began a years-long, expensive and ultimately unsuccessful legal battle against the Scottish government’s consent for Aberdeen Bay.

OKIsItJustMe

(21,510 posts)
9. They're a menace!
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:13 PM
Friday

Utility-scale solar is now becoming less expensive than on-shore wind. He should have fewer new wind farms to worry about.


IEA (2025), Carbon-Free Electricity in G20 Countries, Page 54, Global average LCOEs, capital costs and capacity factors of utility-scale solar PV and onshore wind installations, 2022-2030, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/carbon-free-electricity-in-g20-countries, Licence: CC BY 4.0

applegrove

(127,110 posts)
4. For sure governments need to pay their bills but the US pressuring
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 06:57 PM
Friday

Europe in to making everything more efficient is misguided. For 50 years people drank coffee, went to work and used the facilities before their lunch break and it didn't hurt anyone except a ceo who didn't get as big as bonus than they wanted so they cried and cried. Let Europe be Europe.

jls4561

(2,523 posts)
5. I'm sure Europe has some advice for the bloviator in chief about how to improve his country.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:00 PM
Friday

If not, Orrex can be consulted for suggestions.

FirstLight

(15,564 posts)
6. Europe and others are surpassing the US
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:06 PM
Friday

Trump is a stupid and he's causing us to fall behind. Old man yelling at windmills.



People are still innovating ..
Especially when it comes to alternative Energy. I've seen articles the last few days of some amazing things that different countries are putting into place.

...Germany is putting solar panels on the tops of the freeway barriers on the sides for sound. Therefore using structures already in place and not new Fields or anything. Australia has developed some new formulas for asphalt that repair themselves with bacteria and other organic matter and then also using glow in the dark solar paint so people can see the lines at night without needing lights. And then I don't know which Northern country I want to say norway, has developed a desalination and organic bubble of some sort that goes on top of the water and not only desalinates but works with plant matter and therefore puts more oxygen in the ocean? Or something like that.
Clearly other countries around the world are passing Us by and the United States is going to be the one that's 40 years behind when this is all over. But to me the innovations are heartening that maybe humans can do something to fix the planet. If we can just take the money away from all the oil companies right?

SSJVegeta

(1,192 posts)
7. The fact that this guys name is Don and rants about windmills proves irony suffered a painful, brutal death long ago
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:08 PM
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NickB79

(20,005 posts)
8. Much like the US, Europe needs immigrants or their population will collapse
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:13 PM
Friday

Native-born Europeans aren't having enough babies anymore to maintain the population, just like in the US. If it weren't for immigrants, far more nations would be like Japan, with negative growth rates.

Not that it's a bad thing to have fewer children, but from an economic standpoint it's devastating to see your workforce declining and your population aging.

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