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Former U.S. President Donald Trump was up to one of his favorite past times last Wednesday night by phoning Fox News and talking to Sean Hannity live on television. He was ranting again about his outsized grievance against \u201cwindmills.\u201d We sane folk know them as wind turbines that increasingly contribute to green energy instead those polluting, coal-fired, power stations that Trump promotes since he is a climate denier.<\/p>\n

Trump exclaimed to Hannity and his millions of TV viewers, \u201cThey\u2019re making windmills all over the place to ruin our land and kill our birds. They kill everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

That immediately set Twitter on fire. Thor Benson tweeted in response, \u201cIt\u2019s true, a windmill just killed me.\u201d Bradley P. Moss tweeted, \u201cI have been killed by a windmill three times this week alone.\u201d Frank Dugan said, \u201cI guess this explains all the deal folks in Holland.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, I guess those windmills keep killing Donald Trump, but he just rises from the dead to keep complaining about them. Seems reasonable. Trump has said before that those \u201cwindmills cause cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

George Conway\u2013the Washington attorney and husband of former President Trump advisor Kelly Anne Conway, who both comprise perhaps Washington\u2019s strangest political power couple of all time\u2013joined in the fun. He tweeted, \u201cWhat is Biden doing about WINDMILL CANCER (emphasis his).\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve blogged before about Trump\u2019s aversion to wind turbines in a post entitled, \u201c Heh Trump: Skyscrapers Kill Way More Birds than Wind Turbines<\/a>.\u201d In it I state,<\/p>\n

\u201cIn actuality, those skyscraper buildings that real estate mogul Trump used to build kill way more birds in the U.S. than its wind turbines do. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says in its online article entitled Wind Turbines, \u2018The most comprehensive and statistically sound estimates show that bird deaths from turbine collisions are between 140,000 and 500,000 birds per year. As wind energy capacity increases . . . bird deaths resulting in collisions with turbines could reach 1.4 million birds\/year.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIn contrast, CNN reports, \u2018around 600 million birds in the United States die ever year from striking tall buildings . . . according to research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Attracted to artificial light in high-rise (city) blocks, birds can become disoriented and crash into walls, many of which are made of glass\u2013suffering injury and often death.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cHeh Trump, that\u2019s over 600 times more birds that crash into big buildings\u2013some which you\u2019re so proud of building\u2013and get killed than birds that crash into wind turbines and get killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"