Not even his most rabid supporters expect Donald Trump to say anything particularly intelligent. Sure, he has a nice line in hateful and confusing waffle, but with his brain collapsing further and further into a pudding-like state each day, his already loopy speeches are now indecipherably weird.
But even we hoped that Trump might be able to identify a bald eagle. It’s literally right in the middle of the presidential seal! Images of it are emblazoned across the White House! Trump himself has been personally menaced by one!
Timeless classic! A bald eagle attacked Trump during a Time magazine photoshoot
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) December 7, 2025
In December 2015, the bird named Uncle Sam flapped its wings in Trump’s face and tried to peck his hand.
The trainer could barely hold the bald eagle. Trump was clearly not amused and kept asking… pic.twitter.com/cua329aMNi
But, alas, despite all this, Trump apparently doesn’t know what a bald eagle looks like. In a bizarre Truth Social post, he posted an image of a dead bird next to a wind farm:
“Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!”
As the, uh, eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted, this bird is neither bald nor an eagle. It appears to be some kind of falcon. But wait, I hear you cry, falcons being killed by U.S. wind farms is also bad!
A swing and a miss, sir!
Well, maybe. But if you look a little closer, you’ll spot Hebrew on the closest turbine, revealing that this particular windfarm (and dead falcon) is in Israel. The capper on all this is that the photo isn’t even recent, having been sourced from 2017. So a fail on all counts.
Trump posted a photo claiming it shows a bald eagle in the United States killed by a windmill.
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) December 31, 2025
In reality, the image is of a dead falcon in Israel from 2017. pic.twitter.com/CequYzpH21
But, naturally, this isn’t really about dead bald eagles (or dead falcons), it’s about trying to stamp out the renewable energy sector while promoting highly polluting fossil fuels. Trump’s billionaire buddies in the fossil fuel industry probably sent this photo over to him and told him it was a bald eagle, likely concluding his mangled brain is too far gone to be able to correctly identify birds.
But, if you happen to be reading this Donald, we can only underline that bald eagles are easily identified due to their white feathers on their head, which gives them their “bald” name. The more you know, eh?
