Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

by Andy Borowitz

“Not only are wind farms disgusting looking, but even worse they are bad for people’s health,” he tweeted, again in 2012. “The fumes coming up to make these massive windmills is more than anything that we’re talking about with natural gas,” he later claimed. I’d ask him to produce some numbers to back that up, but, as we’ve seen, when Trump wanders into the land of numbers, it never ends well. The news about wind turbines was no better in 2019, when Trump hinted darkly, “[T]hey say the noise causes cancer.” (Wait, that’s lightbulbs’ job!) You’d think giving us cancer would satisfy wind power’s appetite for destruction, but no. During the same 2020 presidential debate where Trump talked about the “fumes” associated with wind farms, he alleged that the turbines “kills [sic] all the birds.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service disagreed, stating that the number one threat to birds is cats.