‘I Hate The Wind!’ The Personal Feud That Is (At Least Partially) Behind Trump’s Anti-Clean-Energy Crusade

on November 4, 2013 in UNSPECIFIED, United Kingdom. — METHIL, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 04: A general view of the worlds largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine at Fife Energy Park on November 4, 2013 in Methil, Scotland. The seven megawatt machine, located jus... METHIL, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 04: A general view of the worlds largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine at Fife Energy Park on November 4, 2013 in Methil, Scotland. The seven megawatt machine, located just 50 metres off the coast at Methil, is now ready for testing by Korean owners Samsung Heavy Industries. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) MORE LESS

August 22, 2018 6:00 a.m.

Trump's thoughts on wind energy are complicated, but all negative. According to Axios, he often remarks in meetings on energy policy, "I hate the wind." In a speech to donors this week, he declared that coal is "a tremendous form of...

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