# Post x_411512318963773440

- Post ID: `x_411512318963773440`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-12-13T15:05:57.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_411512318963773440
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_411512318963773440/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_411512318963773440.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Economics behind ugly, bird killing wind turbines do not work--will destroy Scotland's beautiful coastline. (cont) http://t.co/0qGVX4gs1w

## Engagement

- Likes: 38
- Reposts: 44
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.275Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T20:27:07.357Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Wind Turbines / Scotland — December 13, 2013

### Contextual Frame

This tweet is embedded in an active multi-channel legal and PR campaign. Trump's Court of Session challenge against the Scottish government's approval of the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) — 11 turbines, ~3.5km offshore Aberdeenshire — had concluded hearings in November 2013. The post is one node in a coordinated offensive combining litigation, parliamentary testimony, op-eds, and social media. The "(cont)" notation signals this is a structured, multi-part statement rather than spontaneous venting.

### Authorship Attribution

Posted at 10:05 AM EST in December 2013, when Trump was almost certainly in New York. Business-hours timing is a primary aide-authorship indicator. However, the specific vocabulary — "ugly," "bird killing," "beautiful coastline" — maps directly onto Trump's documented aesthetic binary lexicon ("ugly" is a signature modifier; he used nearly identical phrasing in his Scottish Parliament submission). The em-dash "--" and emotional adjective stacking are consistent with his authentic Twitter style. Most probable: collaborative authorship in which Trump supplied the rhetoric and an aide structured the multi-part format.

### Critical Projection — The Dominant Psychological Feature

The most significant psychological element requires background context. Trump's Menie Estate golf course construction was so destructive to the protected Foveran Links sand dunes (a 4,000-year-old Site of Special Scientific Interest) that NatureScot subsequently stripped the SSSI of its designation entirely, citing formal destruction of its ecological interests. Separately, Trump unilaterally dissolved the Menie Environment Management Advisory Group in 2013 — the same year as this tweet — refusing to reinstate it. He thus accuses offshore wind turbines of "destroy[ing] Scotland's beautiful coastline" having already been formally documented as doing exactly that himself. This constitutes a textbook **projection** defense mechanism at scale, made more potent by its unconsciousness: there is no evidence he registers the irony.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Rationalization (neurotic, primary):** The post opens with "Economics... do not work" — a public-interest policy frame draped over what is a private financial grievance. Trump's own legal submissions focused primarily on aesthetic impact to his property, not national economic policy. The economic argument provides rational-actor legitimacy to a NIMBY position.

**Projection (immature, secondary):** As detailed above — attributes landscape destruction to turbines while his own construction had formally destroyed a protected coastal SSSI.

**Splitting (immature):** Binary encoding, no gradient: turbines = ugly/destructive/uneconomic; coastline = beautiful. Zero acknowledgment of trade-offs, competing evidence, or complexity.

### Rhetorical Analysis

The post deploys a **three-vector persuasion strategy** targeting distinct constituencies simultaneously: economic skeptics ("economics do not work"), environmentalists ("bird killing"), and aesthetic/heritage preservationists ("beautiful coastline"). This breadth suggests strategic calculation rather than pure affect. Notably, "bird killing" represents a **rhetorical inversion** — borrowing environmentalist vocabulary to advance anti-environmental infrastructure ends, from a developer who had just destroyed a protected environmental site. The strategy maximizes coalition breadth at the cost of intellectual coherence.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Economics behind wind turbines do not work" | **Mostly False** | UK offshore wind economics were on a documented improvement trajectory in 2013; the Scottish government's strategic support was premised on cost projections trending toward competitiveness. Trump's own legal submissions centered on aesthetic impact to his property, not national economics. No credible economic analysis at the time supported a categorical 'do not work' conclusion. |
| "Wind turbines are bird killing" | **Half True** | U.S. estimates for 2013 placed wind turbine bird mortality at 140,000–679,000 annually, technically accurate. However, wind turbines kill approximately 20x fewer birds per GWh than fossil fuel plants; buildings kill up to 988 million birds annually and cats up to 4 billion. The claim is factually grounded but deployed in a context that grossly misrepresents relative scale and implies a level of environmental concern inconsistent with Trump's own record of destroying a protected Scottish SSSI. |
| "Wind turbines will destroy Scotland's beautiful coastline" | **Mostly False** | The EOWDC comprised 11 turbines located approximately 3.5km offshore — not on the coastline. 'Destroy' is extreme hyperbole for an offshore installation. Ironically, Trump's own Menie golf course construction was formally documented by NatureScot as having destroyed the protected Foveran Links SSSI, causing it to lose special status entirely. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 52%)

### Indicators

- Business hours (10:05 AM EST) is a primary aide-authorship indicator
- Three-pronged structured argument (economic/environmental/aesthetic) suggests organizational scaffolding
- Vocabulary ('ugly', 'bird killing', 'beautiful') directly matches Trump's documented aesthetic lexicon in Scottish Parliament testimony
- Em-dash usage and emotional adjective stacking consistent with authentic Trump style
- (cont) notation suggests length management; could reflect aide-structured multi-part post

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Scottish government approval of EOWDC wind farm threatening golf course property values and aesthetics)

**Rage:** Intensity 32% targeting Scottish government and EOWDC wind farm developers
- Proportionality: 22%

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 38%
- Antisocial: 22%
- Paranoid: 12%
- Sadism: 4%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 27%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Invites audience to share aesthetic outrage at 'ugly' turbines, recruiting aesthetic consensus
- Bird-mortality framing positions audience as unwitting environmentalists alongside him

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-27._

> Economics behind wind turbines do not work

**MOSTLY FALSE**

UK offshore wind economics were on a documented improvement trajectory in 2013; the Scottish government's strategic support was premised on cost projections trending toward competitiveness. Trump's own legal submissions centered on aesthetic impact to his property, not national economics. No credible economic analysis at the time supported a categorical 'do not work' conclusion.

Sources: https://www.npr.org/2013/07/01/196352470/thar-he-blows-trump-tussles-with-scots-over-wind-turbines; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Club_Scotland_Ltd_v_The_Scottish_Ministers

> Wind turbines are bird killing

**HALF TRUE**

U.S. estimates for 2013 placed wind turbine bird mortality at 140,000–679,000 annually, technically accurate. However, wind turbines kill approximately 20x fewer birds per GWh than fossil fuel plants; buildings kill up to 988 million birds annually and cats up to 4 billion. The claim is factually grounded but deployed in a context that grossly misrepresents relative scale and implies a level of environmental concern inconsistent with Trump's own record of destroying a protected Scottish SSSI.

Sources: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds; https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/; https://www.carbonbrief.org/bird-death-and-wind-turbines-a-look-at-the-evidence/

> Wind turbines will destroy Scotland's beautiful coastline

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The EOWDC comprised 11 turbines located approximately 3.5km offshore — not on the coastline. 'Destroy' is extreme hyperbole for an offshore installation. Ironically, Trump's own Menie golf course construction was formally documented by NatureScot as having destroyed the protected Foveran Links SSSI, causing it to lose special status entirely.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Offshore_Wind_Deployment_Centre; https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/protected-sand-dunes-to-lose-special-status-after-environmental-damage-by-trump-golf-course/

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- wind energy opposition (92%)
- Scotland golf course (88%)
- motivated reasoning (87%)
- projection (85%)
- NIMBY advocacy as public interest (83%)
- three-vector persuasion (78%)
- rhetorical inversion (75%)
- loaded language (72%)
- self-interest dressed as policy concern (85%)
- active litigation (80%)

## That day

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

**Nocturnal Rage and a Six-Post Scorched-Earth Campaign: 3 AM Mandela Contempt Eruption Bookends a Day-Long DARVO Assault on the AG Who Filed a $40M Fraud Suit**

December 13, 2013 is defined by a six-post DARVO counter-campaign against NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, launched in retaliation for a $40 million civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University filed four months prior. Across a seven-hour afternoon window, Trump files and amplifies ethics complaints with JCOPE and the Moreland Commission, fabricates insider validation ("sources inside," "talk in Albany"), and demands institutional action against the investigator — establishing in early documented form the retaliatory institutional-weaponization pattern that would scale dramatically against subsequent legal adversaries. A parallel six-target adversarial campaign (Schneiderman, Mandela interpreter Thamsanqa Jantjie, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, editor Graydon Carter, ACA architects, and South African governance) produces 18 posts across approximately 20 hours at an estimated 75th-percentile frequency for the period.

The day's most clinically significant finding is a 3:10–3:19 AM EST posting cluster — rage-charged, punitive, dehumanizing — directed at Jantjie during global Mandela memorial coverage. The nocturnal timing, combined with a preceding 10:52 PM post the night before, establishes sleep disruption as likely. The Mandela content is psychologically notable for two reasons: Jantjie's confirmed psychiatric condition is absent from Trump's framing despite contemporaneous public reporting, and the morning's expressed concern for Mandela's legacy is functionally contradicted by the day's closing characterization of South Africa as a "crime ridden mess...waiting to explode" — violent catastrophism deployed during the week of the nation's most celebrated leader's memorial.

The contamination narrative arc organizes the day's breadth: in each adversarial campaign, legitimate actors are framed as corrupting good things — the legal system, Mandela's legacy, Scotland's coastline, American healthcare — while Trump performs the role of discerning perceiver who alone identifies the corruption. Grandiose state predominates throughout. Hypomanic episode threshold is not met — content is coherent and campaigns are internally organized — but the combination of nocturnal posting, multi-front simultaneous aggression, fabricated authority claims, and duplicate post anomalies represents an elevated engagement state above the 2013 baseline.

Full digest for 2013-12-13: https://trump.fm/date/2013-12-13/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, December 13). Economics behind ugly, bird killing wind turbines... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_411512318963773440
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Economics behind ugly, bird killing wind turbines do not..." X (Twitter), 13 Dec. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_411512318963773440. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Economics behind ugly, bird killing wind turbines do not...," X (Twitter), December 13, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_411512318963773440.

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