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The high cost of power bills is shaping up to be a political issue in
this year's midterm elections. But when it comes to generating
electricity, President Trump is picking winners and losers. He's pushing companies to keep aging coal-powered plants online.

And then there's wind energy, which Trump hates.

"I can proudly say, Doug, that we have not approved one windmill since
I've been in office. And we're going to keep it that way. My goal is to
not let any windmill be built. They're losers," Trump said to his
interior secretary, Doug Burgum, at a recent White House event.

On Monday, Burgam's Interior Department announced it will pay a French
energy company, TotalEnergies, nearly $1 billion to stop plans to build
two wind farms off the coasts of New York and North Carolina. Instead, TotalEnergies will take the money it had paid during the Biden
administration for federal offshore land leases and reinvest some of it
into a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas. TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyann|- described the agreement to forfeit its leases for U.S. offshore
wind farms as "innovative."

The president, meanwhile, repeats his distaste for wind power often and usually without any prompting at all, like he did last week in the Oval
Office with the prime minister of Ireland.

"They're very bad environmentally; they kill the birds; they're
unsightly; they make a lot of noise," Trump said.

Turbine collisions do kill birds, though far fewer than outdoor cats and building collisions do, according to the National Audubon Society. But
for Trump, this really isn't about science. Attacking wind energy is
more of a passion project.

And in this second Trump term, it is the policy of the U.S. government. Long-planned projects have stalled, awaiting federal approvals that
aren't coming. And the administration took the highly unusual step of
pausing construction for five offshore wind power projects that were
already being built off the East Coast by Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New York and Virginia.

"This is unprecedented, and no one saw this coming," said Kit Kennedy, managing director of the power unit at the Natural Resources Defense
Council, an environmental group.

"These are projects that are creating tens of thousands of good-paying
jobs. They represent billions and billions of dollars of investment and
were near completion when these stop-work orders come down," Kennedy said.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5684158/trump-takes-aim-at-windmills-despite-increasing-energy-costs

Trump's "passion projects" are all resounding failures. Tariffs, energy, playing commander-in-chief on TV, ... What could possibly explain that.
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