Trump Doesn't Understand How Wind Power Works

"When the wind doesn’t blow, they tend not to do too well. Right?”  Apparently President Trump doesn't quite get how wind energy works.

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00:00I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I've studied it better than anybody. I know it's very expensive

00:05They're made in China and Germany mostly very few made here almost none

00:11But they're manufactured

00:13tremendous if you're into this tremendous fumes gases are

00:19Spewing into the atmosphere, you know, we have a world right?

00:22So the world is tiny

00:25compared to the universe

00:26So tremendous tremendous amount of fumes and everything

00:35Those windmills number one when the wind doesn't blow they tend not to do too well

00:42Right, we need more energy, but the wind isn't blowing when the wind doesn't blow. What do we do? We got problems

00:49Let's put up some windmills when the wind doesn't blow just turn off the television darling, please

00:54No wind out today when the wind stops blowing that's the end of your electric. Let's hurry you darling

01:02Darling is the wind blowing today. I'd like to watch television darling

01:16But really when the wind doesn't blow you got problems if your house is staring at a windmill not good

01:22When the wind doesn't blow so what happens when the wind doesn't blow? Well, then we have a problem. Okay good

01:27They were putting them in airs where they didn't have much wind to the windmills are wonderful

01:31But you know when the wind doesn't blow they really do cause problems

01:35We have no energy this week. Well, we hopefully the wind will start blowing pretty soon. We like

01:41Windmills. Oh, really? What about the thousands of birds? They're killing

01:45Try going to the bottom of a windmill someday. It's not a pretty picture

01:49They kill so many birds you look underneath some of those windmills. It's like a killing field of birds

01:54Of course, they kill all the birds, you know, other than that, they're wonderful. I

02:03Don't want to just hope the wind blows to light up your homes in your factory

02:19As the birds fall to the ground