'A Blight On Our Country': Trump Blasts 'Stupid' Wind And Solar Farms, Touts 'Clean Beautiful Coal'

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During a cabinet meeting Tuesday, President Trump spoke about green energy sources.

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00:00Wind is a very expensive form of energy.

00:02It's very bad for your beautiful surroundings,

00:05the plains, and the valleys,

00:07and the birds are dying all over the place.

00:09You know, the whole thing is a disaster.

00:12They're almost exclusively made in China.

00:15Not that I have anything against China,

00:16because they don't have a great relationship

00:18with President Xi, but I asked him,

00:21how many wind farms do you have?

00:23He makes them, but they don't have a lot of wind farms,

00:25I'll tell you, very, very few.

00:27And wind is tremendously expensive and is very ugly.

00:33And if you own a house that's inside of a windmill,

00:35your house is worth less than half.

00:37And people, and you hear noises.

00:38And interestingly, in New England,

00:41you probably read where for 50 years,

00:44they had two wells washed up.

00:4650 years.

00:47And last summer, they had 14 washed up.

00:51Now, I'm not saying that's the wind farm that was built,

00:55but maybe it is, right?

00:56It probably is.

00:58It's tremendously expensive.

01:01And it can only be done with subsidy.

01:03You know, I know a man that's in that business

01:05and one of the biggest in the world actually runs a company

01:08that builds these stupid windmills.

01:10And he said, I hate the business

01:11because it's the only energy where you need subsidy.

01:15He said, energy shouldn't need subsidy.

01:16You should make money with energy.

01:18So wind.

01:18The other one is the solar, those big solar fields.

01:21They're taking our farmland.

01:23Our farmers are, like, mortified by it.

01:25They hate it.

01:26It's very, very inefficient and very ugly, too.

01:30You know, probably better than a windmill,

01:31but you go around and you see all these things

01:34that are three miles long by three miles wide,

01:36and you say, what the hell is that?

01:38And it's a lot of plastic from China.

01:41It's plastic, black plastic from China.

01:44Now, we want to be smart.

01:45We're going with, look, China right now

01:50is building 58 coal-fired plants.

01:54Fifty-eight big ones.

01:56They have 62 on the books to build.

01:59We are, we've reintroduced clean, beautiful coal,

02:03because, you know, you can do a lot with coal now.

02:05Clean, beautiful coal and natural gas

02:08and all of the other things that we have.

02:09But we don't want wind and we don't want solar,

02:12because they're a blight on our country.

02:15They hurt our country very badly.

02:17And smart countries don't use it.

02:19Solar sounds good, I will say.

02:21And I like, on occasion, you'll see a roof

02:24which is made of solar brick and, but it's a smaller use.

02:29We need the kind of thing that's going to fire up our plants

02:33and it's not going to be wind, you know,

02:35that is very intermittent, as you probably know.

02:38But we, they have, they've spent a fortune.

02:41They've spent trillions of dollars on this stuff.

02:44And, and I'll just give you one other story.

02:46A friend of mine is a very successful guy.

02:49He went back to see his mother in Minnesota.

02:52Hadn't seen her in a long time.

02:54And he wasn't back for 10 years, which isn't a nice story.

02:56I mean, you don't see a mother for 10 years.

02:58She's got some difficulties, which I know the guy,

03:00he does have some difficulties.

03:02He's very successful, but probably not the nicest person.

03:07It was actually longer than 10 years, but he went back

03:09and he told me he wanted to go and look at the valley.

03:11There's a valley in Minnesota that he thought was so beautiful.

03:15Hadn't seen it in a long time.

03:17He's driving along the road, he said, oh my,

03:19I'll use the word gosh, oh my gosh.

03:21He said, oh, oh, he said, it looked like a junkyard.

03:26You had 159 windmills, they were all over the place.

03:31Some were old, some were newer, different companies,

03:34different shapes, different sizes, different colors.

03:37Many of them were terminated, terminated meaning clouds.

03:41You can't take them down because the environmentalists

03:43don't let you bury the blades because they're made out of a fiber

03:47they say is bad for the earth.

03:49So they want you to put them up,

03:50but they don't let you take them down.

03:52But many of them were turned off.

03:54He said it looked like a junkyard.

03:56Go to Palm Springs, California,

03:58and take a look at that pile of junk.

04:00You go into a wealthy neighborhood before you get there,

04:02you have to ride through hundreds of windmills that are,

04:06most of them are turned off.

04:07They're rotting, they're rusting,

04:09they're 30 years old, 20 years old,

04:12and they have a very short life.

04:14You know, those windmills have a very short life,

04:16especially the ones that are in the nice,

04:17salty Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

04:20where the salt just gets under that steel and decimates it.

04:24Now, it's a horrible, horrible thing for our country.

04:28And I speak out, it would be nice to say wind,

04:32because it sounds so good, doesn't it, Doug?

04:34Wind, wind, but it's not.

04:37It's these ugly machines, and they're all made.

04:40You got to see, some are a little taller, a little shorter.

04:43They're made by different companies.

04:45They have different stocks.

04:46They have different blades.

04:48They have different everything.

04:49It is so horrible.

04:52And if you look at smart countries, they don't use it.

04:55Smart countries don't use it.

04:57And we're now a smart country.

04:58We're not a, we're a brilliant country.

05:01We're not smart.

05:01We're brilliant now.

05:02We're going to be a brilliant country.

05:03We have to be, because we have to catch up

05:06with some really stupid people that did a bad job, yes.

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