# Post ts_113833216412524131 - Post ID: `ts_113833216412524131` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2025-01-15T16:03:57.546Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113833216412524131 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113833216412524131/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113833216412524131.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster. I don’t want even one built during my Administration. The thousands of dead and broken ones should be ripped down ASAP. Most expensive energy, only work with massive government subsidies, which we will no longer pay! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:46), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Like right now on Nantucket, they have closed the beaches because they don't want people getting impaled by shards of fiberglass. - Pieces of broken wind turbine in the water and on the beach, Nantucket's harbor master shutting down all self-facing beaches. - Each one of these blades is longer than a football field. And if they are snapping in half and sending shards of debris in all directions, that is extremely unsafe. People should really start asking themselves, what if there's a hurricane? What happens then? Do many blades break? What happens? And who's responsible for that? There are multiple projects planned of hundreds of turbines combined. Hundreds of turbines. There's probably gonna be like a thousand turbines in that block with blades longer than a football field. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/833/216/326/100/977/original/e082fc51b83ae835.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 35,022 - Reposts: 10,431 - Replies: 3,012 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.324Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T20:09:50.271Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Five days before inauguration, Trump issued an absolute declaration against wind energy from Mar-a-Lago, combining policy signaling with characteristic reality inversion. The post is stylometrically consistent with authentic Trump — his anti-wind fixation predates his political career by decades — posted during business hours with a video attachment suggesting possible aide coordination for media packaging. Psychologically, the post reflects a grandiose narcissistic state in pre-inaugural executive-declaration mode: 'I don't want even one' reflects the schema of a sovereign rather than a process-constrained executive. Prominent splitting (wind = 100% bad), denial of well-documented cost data, and rationalization via subsidy arguments are the dominant defense mechanisms. Shadow projection is notable: the ecological destruction attributed to wind turbines ('dead and broken') mirrors the documented environmental record of the fossil fuel industry Trump champions. Rhetorically, the post deploys fiscal populism, expert consensus dismissal, and vivid destruction imagery ('ripped down ASAP'). Three verifiable factual claims in the post are false or mostly false by available LCOE and comparative environmental data. Danger level is none — eliminationist language targets infrastructure, not persons. Cognitive complexity is consistent with Trump's recent baseline; no markers of deterioration detected. The post is most notable for its demonstration of stable, decades-long ideological fixation and the confident assertion of inverted reality as policy foundation. ## Post Analysis: ts_113833216412524131 — "Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster" **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2025-01-15 | **Local Time (EST/Mar-a-Lago):** ~11:04 AM --- ### Authorship Attribution Trump was at Mar-a-Lago during this period (his hush money sentencing was conducted remotely from there; Zuckerberg's dinner also occurred at Mar-a-Lago). EST = UTC−5, placing this post at **11:03 AM local time** — solidly mid-morning business hours. This alone suggests possible aide involvement. However, stylometric features strongly favor authentic Trump: punchy declarative syntax, first-person executive ownership ("my Administration"), single-word capitalization for urgency ("ASAP"), absolutist framing ("not even one"), and the anti-wind fixation which is a decades-long Trump obsession predating political life. The video attachment slightly elevates the probability of aide coordination for media packaging, but the prose itself lacks the polish of Scavino-era posts. Assessment: **authentic Trump content, possibly aide-assisted for video embed only** — confidence: medium-high. --- ### Context & Trigger Five days before inauguration, Trump is in full executive-declaration mode. No specific proximate trigger is evident; this is consistent with **pre-inauguration policy-signaling behavior** — using the platform to publicly commit his incoming administration to positions his base favors. The LA Palisades and Eaton fires (Jan 13) may serve as ambient fuel: anti-renewable voices routinely exploit major weather events to attack wind/solar policy, and Trump's audience would make this inferential connection without him needing to state it. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, commanding register — "I don't want even one." Positions himself as sole arbiter of national energy policy before even assuming office. **Agreeableness (very low):** Zero acknowledgment of complexity, tradeoffs, or dissenting views. Entirely dismissive. No hedging. **Conscientiousness (low — deliberation facet):** Absolutist declaration with no policy mechanism, no cost analysis, no timeline. "ASAP" substitutes for deliberative planning. **Neuroticism (moderate — angry hostility):** Tone is commanding rather than rage-filled. Less reactive than many Trump posts; more declaratory. **Openness (very low):** Rigid, categorical rejection. The framing "I don't want even one" signals complete closure to evidence or argument. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Agency (very high).** The post is a unilateral executive declaration issued before holding office — pure agency-motive expression. "My Administration" is possessive; wind energy industry is simply dismissed. No communion motive visible. **Core schema revealed:** The world consists of winning deals and losing deals. Wind energy = a losing deal imposed on "real Americans" by elites/globalists. His role = unilateral correction. This schema is highly stable across years of Trump content and shows no deviation here. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The decisive executive who corrects others' costly mistakes. No ambiguity, no process — just declaration. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination (good American energy landscape → ruined by wind subsidies) setting up an implied redemption (his administration restores proper order). This is a classic Trump narrative arc. **Identity claims:** Fiscal conservative, environmental pragmatist (inverting the usual green framing), sovereign executive, protector of the taxpayer. **Contrasting other:** Wind energy industry, previous administrations (implicitly Biden/Obama), globalist subsidy beneficiaries. No named individual here — the enemy is institutional. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** Issuing national energy policy via social media post, five days before inauguration, with zero consultation or qualification. "I don't want even one" is the formulation of someone who experiences themselves as sovereign — not as an executive constrained by law, Congress, or administrative process. **Malignant Narcissism components present:** - *Narcissistic features (high):* Entitlement to dictate policy absolutely; grandiosity in scope - *Antisocial features (moderate):* Contempt for existing regulatory frameworks; disregard for stakeholders (wind workers, investors, grid operators) - *Paranoid features (low-moderate):* Implicit framing of wind subsidies as a corrupt system targeting ordinary Americans - *Sadism (low):* Mild pleasure in the "ripped down ASAP" formulation — the image of destruction is relished rather than merely proposed **Defense mechanisms:** - *Splitting (immature):* Wind energy = 100% bad. No spectrum, no nuance, no acknowledgment that any wind turbine has ever generated usable power - *Denial (pathological):* The economic claims deny substantial evidence that onshore wind is now cost-competitive in most US markets without subsidies - *Rationalization (neurotic):* Cost and subsidy arguments are deployed as post-hoc logical scaffolding for a visceral, pre-rational position. The conclusion ("no windmills") preceded any analysis --- ### Cognitive Status **Complexity:** Simple sentence structure, limited vocabulary, no complex syntax. Consistent with Trump's established baseline — no deviation noted. **Baseline deviation: none.** **Language production:** No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or tangentiality detected. Post is short and coherent on its own terms. **Note:** Comparing to documented 1990s Trump speech patterns, there is long-term simplification of syntax and vocabulary, but this specific post does not deviate from his recent 2024 baseline. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Hyperbole:** "economic and environmental disaster" — maximalist framing, no gradations - **Superlatives:** "Most expensive energy" — stated as fact, inverted from actual LCOE data - **False absolutism:** "I don't want even one" — performative maximalism that signals dominance rather than policy - **Appeal to fiscal populism:** Subsidies framing positions wind as elite welfare at taxpayer expense — resonant with base - **Eliminationist language (infrastructure, not people):** "should be ripped down ASAP" — imagery of destruction is viscerally satisfying to the audience; applies emotional register of violent action to an inanimate target - **Epistemic closure device:** States contested economic claims as obvious fact, foreclosing debate **Dehumanizing language:** Absent — targets here are objects/institutions, not people. **Violent imagery:** Present but directed at infrastructure only. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** Absent. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The post contains multiple reality inversions stated as obvious truth: 1. Wind = "environmental disaster" inverts the established comparative environmental analysis of energy sources 2. "Most expensive energy" directly contradicts LCOE data showing onshore wind among the cheapest sources of new generation 3. "Only work with massive government subsidies" ignores that (a) wind is now subsidy-competitive in many markets and (b) fossil fuels receive comparable or greater subsidies These are not errors — they are stable, repeated distortions Trump has deployed for over a decade. The mechanism is consistent with the **Firehose model**: confident assertion of inverted reality, relying on volume and repetition rather than evidence. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster" | **Mostly False** | Onshore wind has among the lowest LCOE of any new generation source per EIA/NREL data. Environmental impacts (bird mortality, land use, manufacturing) exist but are substantially lower than fossil fuel equivalents across virtually all metrics including carbon emissions, air quality, and water consumption. | | "Most expensive energy" | **False** | Per EIA data, onshore wind LCOE is competitive with natural gas combined cycle and is among the lowest-cost sources of new electricity generation in the US. This claim directly inverts the documented cost data. | | "Only work with massive government subsidies, which we will no longer pay" | **Mostly False** | The Production Tax Credit has supported wind development, but wind is now cost-competitive in many US markets without subsidies. Fossil fuel industries also receive substantial subsidies (depletion allowance, intangible drilling costs) not mentioned. The claim that wind 'only works' with subsidies is false for current installed and operational capacity. | | "Thousands of dead and broken ones should be ripped down" | **Unverifiable** | Decommissioned wind turbines exist and end-of-life disposal is a documented environmental concern. The characterization of 'thousands' of failed turbines implies a widespread collapse-scale failure rate that is not documented in available data. Some decommissioned turbines exist but the scale implied is unsubstantiated. | Overall Veracity: 23% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 70%) ### Indicators - Punchy declarative syntax consistent with authentic Trump style - First-person possessive framing ('my Administration') characteristic of authentic posts - Single ALL CAPS word for urgency ('ASAP') — authentic Trump pattern - Anti-wind obsession is decades-long personal fixation predating political career - Video attachment slightly suggests aide coordination for media packaging ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Pre-inauguration policy-signaling; ambient LA wildfires context may provide implicit rhetorical fuel) Sentiment: -0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 25% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - denial (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Fiscal populism framing (subsidies as elite welfare at taxpayer expense) - Inverted expertise — stating the opposite of expert consensus as obvious fact - Audience activation via vivid destruction imagery ('ripped down ASAP') - Pre-inauguration executive declaration to activate anticipatory excitement in base ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Calls wind energy an 'environmental disaster' — direct inversion of comparative environmental data - States wind is 'most expensive energy' — directly contradicts available LCOE data without qualification - Frames wind as uniquely subsidy-dependent while championing fossil fuels that receive comparable subsidies - Presents contested economic claims as obvious, unquestionable facts requiring no evidence **Violent Imagery Present** ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster **MOSTLY FALSE** Onshore wind has among the lowest LCOE of any new generation source per EIA/NREL data. Environmental impacts (bird mortality, land use, manufacturing) exist but are substantially lower than fossil fuel equivalents across virtually all metrics including carbon emissions, air quality, and water consumption. Sources: EIA Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis; NREL Life Cycle Assessment > Most expensive energy **FALSE** Per EIA data, onshore wind LCOE is competitive with natural gas combined cycle and is among the lowest-cost sources of new electricity generation in the US. This claim directly inverts the documented cost data. Sources: EIA Annual Energy Outlook; Lazard LCOE Analysis > Only work with massive government subsidies, which we will no longer pay **MOSTLY FALSE** The Production Tax Credit has supported wind development, but wind is now cost-competitive in many US markets without subsidies. Fossil fuel industries also receive substantial subsidies (depletion allowance, intangible drilling costs) not mentioned. The claim that wind 'only works' with subsidies is false for current installed and operational capacity. Sources: Congressional Budget Office energy subsidy analysis; NREL wind market reports > Thousands of dead and broken ones should be ripped down **UNVERIFIABLE** Decommissioned wind turbines exist and end-of-life disposal is a documented environmental concern. The characterization of 'thousands' of failed turbines implies a widespread collapse-scale failure rate that is not documented in available data. Some decommissioned turbines exist but the scale implied is unsubstantiated. Overall Veracity: 23% ## Tags - energy-policy (95%) - wind-energy (95%) - anti-renewable (90%) - pre-inauguration-signaling (85%) - fiscal-populism (80%) - reality-inversion (80%) - splitting (75%) - grandiose-state (75%) - shadow-projection (65%) - authentic-likely (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Five Days Out: Grandiose Pre-Inaugural Crescendo Peaks With Hostage Deal Credit Claim** Five days before inauguration, Trump posted a moderate seven times from Mar-a-Lago, building from routine personnel announcements and early-morning Fox News grievances toward a triumphant afternoon claiming personal credit for the Gaza ceasefire deal. The morning featured a brief flash of institutional resentment directed at the FBI and Jack Smith, but the day's mood was overwhelmingly self-congratulatory. The hostage deal announcement was the clear emotional peak -- delivered first in an impulsive all-caps burst, then followed by an aide-polished essay crediting his election victory as the sole cause. No anger, no attacks on individuals, no danger signals -- just a man rehearsing his comeback narrative on the eve of power. Full digest for 2025-01-15: https://trump.fm/date/2025-01-15/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, January 15). Windmills are an economic and environmental... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113833216412524131 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster. I..." Truth Social, 15 Jan. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113833216412524131. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster. 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