President Trump
Donald John TrumpStates fight Trump rollback of Obama lightbulb rules Authorities investigating shooting near Trump resort in Florida Trump: 'China is dreaming' Biden, other Dems get elected MORE on Thursday repeated his criticism of wind-based renewable energy, saying that the wind does not always blow.
"If it doesn't blow, you can forget about television for that night," he said at a rally in Michigan.
"Darling, I want to watch television.' 'I'm sorry! The wind isn't blowing.' I know a lot about wind," he added.
TRUMP: "If Hillary got in... you'd be doing wind. Windmills. Weeeee. And if it doesn't blow, you can forget about television for that night. 'Darling, I want to watch television.' 'I'm sorry! The wind isn't blowing.' I know a lot about wind." pic.twitter.com/tGsUIoUmUQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2019
According to the Department of Energy's website, the U.S. power grid is set up to handle such variability.
Trump made similar comments in a Wednesday interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity as well as last week while speaking at a factory in Ohio.
The president also criticized the "Green New Deal," saying he loves to campaign against the idea.
President @realDonaldTrump goes hard after the Green New Deal during remarks in Grand Rapids at the @VanAndelArena. @WOODTV. https://t.co/KE9yvg8UrT pic.twitter.com/GSfzz84WSr
— Leon Hendrix (@LeonHendrix) March 28, 2019
“I don’t want to talk them out of it too soon,” he said. “I love campaigning against the 'Green New Deal.' I want them to make that a big part of their platform.”
The Green New Deal sought to create an economy based entirely on renewable energy within a decade. Green New Deal legislation introduced by Sen. Ed Markey
Edward (Ed) John MarkeySanders to join Ocasio-Cortez in headlining Green New Deal rally Monday Ocasio-Cortez talks Warren, Sanders and possible endorsement Hillicon Valley: Facebook co-founder calls for breaking up company | Facebook pushes back | Experts study 2020 candidates to offset 'deepfake' threat | FCC votes to block China Mobile | Groups, lawmakers accuse Amazon of violating children's privacy MORE (D-Mass.) was blocked in the Senate this week.
