“The windmills are killin’ our country, by the way. The fields are littered with ’em. Junk. They’re littered with ’em. And they get older and they get rusty and they get bad and they get — this is other countries also. It’s the greatest scam in history. It’s the most expensive energy you can buy. They’re ugly. A friend of mine, uh, comes from Minnesota. He’s been in New York. He hit it big, he’s a very successful guy, actually. And he wanted to go back, see his mother who’s not well. And he went back to Minnesota, hasn’t been back there in twenty years. And he said, ‘It’s unbelievable what happened.’ He said, ‘I’m driving down a highway and up a certain road and the most beautiful fields. I remember ’em so well. And I was so looking forward to seeing ’em again and I looked at ’em and they had windmills all over ’em. These horrible horrible structures.’ Very smart guy, this guy. And he said, ‘These ugly build — these ugly horrible things.’ And he said, ‘It was so bad I actually drove back to see it because I couldn’t believe it, before I even got to my mother I drove back.’ I said ‘How much do you like your mother?’ But no, it hurt him to see it. He said ‘I looked at this field that was one of the most beautiful places in my own mind and imagination that I’ve ever seen, and I said it’s littered with these — this, this garbage.’”Related reading
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His obsession with windmills is bizarre. Of course they don't make the countryside look ugly in any way — it's just as easy to see them as majestic, or a monument to human ingenuity. This is a guy who (supposedly) builds skyscrapers.
I’m not surprised to read this: “Trump’s preoccupation with wind turbines dates back to 2011 – when offshore wind turbines were constructed off the coast of his Scottish golf course. Since then, he has regularly invented an unending series of delusions about problems with windmills that are completely unmoored from reality.” Source here: https://climatepower.us/news/fact-check-trumps-weird-obsession-with-wind-turbines-is-not-rooted-in-reality-or-the-basic-tenets-of-bird-law/.
I’ll admit that they look a little eerie to me — almost like they're living, but they're hardly ugly. But even if they were — how about telephone poles? Grain silos?
Billboards?
If Trump was a writer, I would say he has a "voice" because I could tell it was him without reading any attribution. A stupid voice.
Meanwhile, although I regard turbines as new-fangled, there is an anime where the kids ride their bikes past turbines as brown and fading as the nice telephone poles of my own childhood.
The no-credits opening music includes a glimpse of one, with old brown blades. The music is nice violins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztSVbXekz0Y
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