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Oliver Milman in New York

Trump falsely claims wind turbines lead to whale deaths by making them ‘batty’

Older white man with poofy white hair, navy suit, white shirt, red tie, lapel pin, speaks into microphone at lectern outdoors.
Donald Trump speaks to a crowd during a campaign rally on 25 September 2023 in Summerville, South Carolina. Photograph: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Donald Trump has launched a lengthy and largely baseless attack on wind turbines for causing large numbers of whales to die, claiming that “windmills” are making the cetaceans “crazy” and “a little batty”.

Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, used a rally in South Carolina to assert that while there was only a small chance of killing a whale by hitting it with a boat, “their windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. No one does anything about that.”

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