How Trump's Hatred For Windmills Is Hurting All Of Us

What A Day

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump really, really, really hates wind and solar power. He made sure to make that point very clear during a Cabinet meeting last week, where he ranted about windmills for…way too long. At the end of August, the Trump team ordered construction be stopped on a 4-billion-dollar wind farm project off the coast of Rhode Island that was nearly finished. The administration alluded vaguely to national security threats, suggesting, among other things, that wind farms could be used to launch drone attacks on the U.S. None of this is good. Not just for, you know, preventing the very worst outcomes of climate change that could put billions of lives at risk and alter the very nature of human existence. But also for Americans dealing with spiraling energy bills. So we spoke to Bill McKibben, environmentalist and author of a new book, Here Comes The Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization, about climate change, to help us feel more optimistic about the future of the Earth. And in headlines, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. the Senate Finance Committee, and former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has some thoughts on how we got here.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, September 5th.
0:04.2	I'm Jane Koston and this is What a Day, the show that learned today that D.C.'s hottest club is
0:09.4	The White House Rose Garden?
0:11.9	That's according to a White House spokesperson who told the Hill, quote,
0:15.3	The Rose Garden Club at the White House is the hottest place to be in Washington, or perhaps the world.
0:20.7	I mean, it does have everything.
0:23.2	Corruption, lies, evil, and elderly man with confusing health issues.
0:34.2	On today's show, a showdown, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. versus the Senate Finance Committee. And former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has some thoughts on how we got here. But let's start with the environment. You know, where we live, laugh, love, and observe how the Trump administration seems to be hell-bent on reversing every bit of progress we've made in the fight against climate change.
0:57.1	Because, I don't know if you know this, but President Donald Trump really, really, really hates wind and solar power.
1:04.8	He made sure to make that point very clear during a cabinet meeting last week.
1:08.8	We're not allowing any windmills to go up.
1:10.8	I mean, unless there's a legal situation
1:12.8	where somebody committed to it a long time ago,
1:15.0	we don't allow windmills,
1:16.5	and we don't want the solar panels
1:18.6	that I'm speaking with the secretary about
1:20.8	because they take up, you know,
1:23.9	thousands of acres of our farmland.
1:26.5	You see these big, ugly patches of black plastic that comes from China.
1:31.3	And Trump's specific loathing of wind power is now administration-wide.
1:35.3	At the end of August, the Trump team ordered construction be stopped
1:38.3	on a $4 billion wind farm project off the coast of Rhode Island that was nearly finished.
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