Every Time Donald Trump Has Been Exposed

Donald Trump has some bizarre beliefs about the environment. Some of the modern-day Don Quixote’s biggest enemies in the fight to save Mother Nature are “windmills” (which is what he calls wind turbines) — he mistakenly believes they are killing whales. “The windmills are driving them crazy,” he baselessly claimed at a September 2023 campaign rally, per The Guardian.

In Trump’s world, there’s really no need for the machines to exist. While he’s capable of accepting his unproven theories about whales and wind energy as truth, he doesn’t agree with the scientists who can prove that climate change exists. When wildfires ravaged the West Coast in 2020, the soon-to-be-ex-POTUS suggested that a lack of raking leaves, not climate change, was the problem. And if it’s not an issue, why bother adopting forms of renewable energy?

However, an anti-climate change conspiracy theory Trump once promoted was so outlandish that he later found himself trying to deny that he ever believed it. “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it’s real,” Hillary Clinton said during the first 2016 presidential debate. Speaking over her, Trump argued, “I do not say that. I do not say that.” But science wasn’t needed to prove Clinton’s claim; Trump’s own X, formerly Twitter, feed exposed his lie. “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” he tweeted in 2012.