Trump berates Europe’s offshore wind policies at Davos

Singling out the UK for not using ‘’one of the biggest energy sources in the world’, the oil under the North Sea, Donald Trump delivered a rambling speech that touched on numerous subjects without many details on any of them.

On ‘windmills’, Trump claimed that the administration had ‘taken them down and not approved any’ – appearing to forget the fact that in recent weeks at least three projects have been reinstated by judges in court hearings.

“Because of my landslide election victory, the United States has avoided the catastrophic collapse which befell every European nation that pursued the green new scam – perhaps the greatest hoax in history,” he said.

“The United Kingdom produces one third of total energy from all sources than it did in 1999 and they’re sitting on top of the North Sea, one of the greatest reserves anywhere in the world, but they don’t use it,” he said. “And that’s one reason why their energy has reached catastrophically low levels with equally high prices. 

“Their electricity prices have soared 139%.”

He claimed that Germany produced 22% less energy than it did in 2017.

“There are windmills all over the place and they are losers,” he said. “One thing I’ve noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses and the worse that country’s doing.”

He called China ‘smart’ for ‘making all the windmills’ and selling them for a fortune ‘to the stupid people that buy them’. 

Curiously, he said he hadn’t been able to find ’any wind farms in China’ – yet it is a fact that China has the most installed offshore wind farms in the world by a large margin.

Claiming they were show wind farms, that didn’t spin or ‘do anything’, he said China was just using coal, oil and gas and starting to develop nuclear.

“They make a fortune selling the windmills… and they are shocked that people continue to buy those damn things – they kill birds, they ruin your landscapes,” he said. “Other than that I think they’re fabulous.

“Stupid people buy them.”

He ended on a positive note, praising rare ‘brilliant people’ and predicting a successful future with lots of good things to come.

“The United States is back: bigger, better and stronger than ever before, and I’ll see you around,” he said.