# Post ts_109751926145723983

- Post ID: `ts_109751926145723983`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-25T21:18:10.258Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> One of the dumbest Energy investments ever made. They're unreliable, expensive, and destroy our environment, including the killing of millions of birds a year, and almost all made in China! https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/huge_wind_turbines__taller_than_the_statue_of_liberty__are_toppling_over_in_a_rash_of_incidents.html

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.422Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:54:48.124Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Anti-Wind Turbine Post (2023-01-25)

### Context
Trump shares an American Thinker article about wind turbines toppling over, adding his own commentary attacking wind energy. This is a long-running hobby horse — Trump has railed against wind turbines since at least 2012 (Scottish golf course dispute). Posted at ~4:18 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago), during business hours.

### Authorship
The post has a hybrid quality: the linked article and formatting suggest aide involvement, but the emotional language ("One of the dumbest"), superlatives, and characteristic anti-wind talking points are quintessentially Trump. The content matches his well-documented personal vendetta against wind energy. Likely aide-assisted with Trump-directed content or Trump dictating.

### Psychological Dynamics
This is a **maintenance post** — routine reinforcement of an established grievance rather than a response to a specific trigger. The anti-wind energy stance is one of Trump's most personally motivated policy positions, originating from his conflict with Scottish authorities over wind farms near his golf course.

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post deploys a compressed gish gallop: unreliable, expensive, environmentally destructive, bird-killing, Chinese-made — five distinct attack vectors in a single sentence. Each claim ranges from exaggerated to misleading. The "millions of birds" claim is a significant inflation; estimates range 140,000-500,000 annually in the US (compared to billions from cats and buildings). The "almost all made in China" claim is false for US installations.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Wind turbines kill millions of birds a year" | **Mostly False** | US Fish & Wildlife estimates 140,000-500,000 bird deaths annually from wind turbines in the US. Global figures are higher but 'millions' significantly overstates. For comparison, cats kill 1-4 billion birds annually in the US alone. |
| "Almost all [wind turbines] made in China" | **Mostly False** | Major wind turbine manufacturers (GE, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa) operate factories in the US. China dominates global production but US-installed turbines involve significant domestic manufacturing. Components vary — some parts sourced from China but 'almost all' is false. |
| "Wind turbines are unreliable" | **Half True** | Wind is intermittent, requiring grid management and backup. However, modern turbines have 95%+ availability rates and wind now provides ~10% of US electricity reliably within grid systems. |
| "Wind turbines destroy our environment" | **Mostly False** | Wind energy has environmental impacts (bird/bat mortality, land use, visual impact) but lifecycle environmental impact is dramatically lower than fossil fuel alternatives. |

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (4:18 PM ET)
- Shared article link suggests aide formatting
- Emotional language and superlatives match Trump's voice
- Anti-wind energy is a deeply personal Trump issue
- No typos but informal sentence structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (American Thinker article opportunity)

Sentiment: -0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance
- economic anxiety appeal
- environmental concern co-optation

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Wind turbines kill millions of birds a year

**MOSTLY FALSE**

US Fish & Wildlife estimates 140,000-500,000 bird deaths annually from wind turbines in the US. Global figures are higher but 'millions' significantly overstates. For comparison, cats kill 1-4 billion birds annually in the US alone.

Sources: US Fish & Wildlife Service estimates; Audubon Society data

> Almost all [wind turbines] made in China

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Major wind turbine manufacturers (GE, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa) operate factories in the US. China dominates global production but US-installed turbines involve significant domestic manufacturing. Components vary — some parts sourced from China but 'almost all' is false.

Sources: American Wind Energy Association; Department of Energy Wind Technologies Market Report

> Wind turbines are unreliable

**HALF TRUE**

Wind is intermittent, requiring grid management and backup. However, modern turbines have 95%+ availability rates and wind now provides ~10% of US electricity reliably within grid systems.

Sources: EIA electricity generation data

> Wind turbines destroy our environment

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Wind energy has environmental impacts (bird/bat mortality, land use, visual impact) but lifecycle environmental impact is dramatically lower than fossil fuel alternatives.

Sources: IPCC lifecycle assessments

Overall Veracity: 28%

## Tags

- anti-wind-energy (100%)
- china-scapegoating (60%)
- environmental-concern-cooption (50%)
- maintenance-post (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Facebook Reinstatement Sandwiched Between Sadistic Birx Takedown and Georgia Legal Panic**

Trump spent a quiet late evening retweeting allies before launching an afternoon link-dump touting Biden document scandals and favorable poll numbers. The day's sharpest moment was a gleeful, mocking attack on former COVID advisor Deborah Birx, whom he falsely claimed to have fired. Growing anxiety surfaced late in the day as he turned to the Georgia DA investigation, calling his recorded phone call to election officials "PERFECT" and accusing law enforcement of weaponization. A celebratory post about Facebook restoring his account briefly interrupted the legal anxiety but couldn't sustain the mood.

Full digest for 2023-01-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 25). One of the dumbest Energy investments ever made.... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109751926145723983
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "One of the dumbest Energy investments ever made. They're..." Truth Social, 25 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109751926145723983. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "One of the dumbest Energy investments ever made. They're...," Truth Social, January 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109751926145723983.

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