Donald Trump’s frequently bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and rant unprompted about windmills on his recent trip to the UK, have once again raised questions about his mental acuity, experts say.
For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences. The president repeatedly drifts off topic, including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating, and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life.
Over the weekend Trump, during a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”
Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the amount killed by domestic cats and from flying into power lines).
For me the most bizarre thing with Trump is his obsession with windmills. It was fine if he brought it up once or twice but it feels like every time he opens his mouth he has to mention windmills. Maybe he was molested by a windmill or something?
the windmills of his mind killed Big Bird
For me it’s his obsession with the raping of all those children, and being on the Epstein list.
He’s been mad about windmills ever since Scotland built some within viewing distance of his golf course there. He tried to argue they’d lower his property values and whatnot but he has been ranting about windmills ever since.
This, a lot of his weird takes can be traced back to his days as a slimeball New York real estate developer.
Also, if windmills generate a larger share of the world’s energy, the market for Russian fossil fuels declines. And Russia is not a low-cost producer. They need a higher price to make a profit than, for example, the Saudis, who have to do little more than stick a straw in the ground.
I believe he also stayed there while he was in Europe so he saw them again maybe
Maybe he’s tilting against windmills?
Donald Quixote
The Qatari plane he was trying to get could be his Rocinante. A beat up old hand me down that he thinks is the most superlative conveyance ever made.
“I call this one Jeffrey and it’s been particularly stubborn, but I swear I’m gonna knock it over one of these days”
There is a cadre of rich fucks that hate wind for some reason. Idaho’s weird-toothpaste billionaire Frank VanDerSloot has a vendetta against them too and uses some of the same rhetoric. Frank is more coherent but nonetheless still uses vitriolic ridiculousness when talking about them.
He thinks they’re giants