On Dec. 30, President Donald Trump logged onto Truth Social with a familiar sense of confidence and a loose relationship with facts. He declared windmills a bald eagle enemy and attached an image of a dead bird for emphasis. But that bird wasn’t a bald eagle, and the image wasn’t even of the United States.
The image Trump used with his message, “Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!” was actually of a falcon, photographed in Israel in 2017. Even the U.S. Department of Energy re-shared the post on their official X account. But no one in the chain of power paused to ask two basic questions before posting: What bird is this? And where did this picture come from?
