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Trump asks if we recall the day 2 days ago where there was no wind and thus no tv
Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:17 am
Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:17 am
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President Donald Trump asked Americans on Thursday if they remembered a massive television outage two years ago.
That outage didn't happen. As he has before, the president who is fond of telling imaginary tales was explicitly asking people to recall something he had made up.
This time, Trump's fictional story was about wind energy. He has for years railed against it, tried to thwart it and made false claims about it – including a phony anecdote about how, in places where wind power is used, people can't turn on their TVs when the wind isn't blowing.
That isn't true; wind is used as part of a mix of electricity sources, not as the only source, so the grid keeps running and TVs stay on even when there is no breeze. (Also, there are batteries that can store energy from wind turbines for deployment during low-wind periods.) But Trump has often delivered the no-TV story with a comedic touch that has allowed it to skirt fact checks.
In his Thursday remarks at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, he told it mostly as if it were a real reminiscence.
He denounced "the Green New Scam, where we were scammed." Then he said: "The whole country was – I wasn't scammed. I got it right from the beginning; I got it from the first minute when I heard this crap. You know? They were saying wind was so wonderful, so wonderful, except you couldn't watch your television. They wanted to watch the debate, Donald Trump against Sleepy Joe Biden. Nobody could watch it because the wind wasn't blowing. Remember that? 'Darling, we'd like to watch the debate tonight.' 'I'm sorry, the wind isn't blowing.'"
Uh, no.
Tens of millions of Americans watched his June 2024 debate with then-President Joe Biden – more than 51 million on television alone, according to Nielsen estimates. The viewers, of course, included people in the state that produced by far the most wind-powered electricity in 2024 and still produces by far the most today…Republican-dominated Texas, which is also the most populous state Trump won.
President Donald Trump asked Americans on Thursday if they remembered a massive television outage two years ago.
That outage didn't happen. As he has before, the president who is fond of telling imaginary tales was explicitly asking people to recall something he had made up.
This time, Trump's fictional story was about wind energy. He has for years railed against it, tried to thwart it and made false claims about it – including a phony anecdote about how, in places where wind power is used, people can't turn on their TVs when the wind isn't blowing.
That isn't true; wind is used as part of a mix of electricity sources, not as the only source, so the grid keeps running and TVs stay on even when there is no breeze. (Also, there are batteries that can store energy from wind turbines for deployment during low-wind periods.) But Trump has often delivered the no-TV story with a comedic touch that has allowed it to skirt fact checks.
In his Thursday remarks at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, he told it mostly as if it were a real reminiscence.
He denounced "the Green New Scam, where we were scammed." Then he said: "The whole country was – I wasn't scammed. I got it right from the beginning; I got it from the first minute when I heard this crap. You know? They were saying wind was so wonderful, so wonderful, except you couldn't watch your television. They wanted to watch the debate, Donald Trump against Sleepy Joe Biden. Nobody could watch it because the wind wasn't blowing. Remember that? 'Darling, we'd like to watch the debate tonight.' 'I'm sorry, the wind isn't blowing.'"
Uh, no.
Tens of millions of Americans watched his June 2024 debate with then-President Joe Biden – more than 51 million on television alone, according to Nielsen estimates. The viewers, of course, included people in the state that produced by far the most wind-powered electricity in 2024 and still produces by far the most today…Republican-dominated Texas, which is also the most populous state Trump won.
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Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:39 am to Eurocat
Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:39 am to Eurocat
Man! You've got one of the worst cases of it I've seen to date.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:42 am to Eurocat
quote:Eurocat, that is a bad article, written by a malignant person. To address the basic premise, yes, wind outages and weather have caused problems with wind turbines. Those problems have in turn stressed power grids, and/or resulted in outages. The idiot writer you seem to be promoting here, appears to acknowledge none of that. He then uses his lack of acknowledgment of fact to malign Trump for a quip Trump made in jest.
Trump asks if we recall the day 2 days ago where there was no wind and thus no tv
Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:43 am to Eurocat
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Tens of millions of Americans watched his June 2024 debate with then-President Joe Biden – more than 51 million on television alone, according to Nielsen estimates.
And many finally clued in what a basket case Joe was. I wonder what took some of them so long.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:43 am to Eurocat
Libtards are really trying to get out in front of Trump’s 2028 run
Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:47 am to Eurocat
this is bad. even for you 
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:06 am to Eurocat
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(Also, there are batteries that can store energy from wind turbines for deployment during low-wind periods.)
Link me these battery banks that can power cities during low wind weather.
Link Elon them too, I'm sure he'd love to learn of their existence.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:08 am to Eurocat
I love how POTUS Trump can get us talking about bad ideas. 11d Chess baw.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:09 am to TrueTiger
I bet that's a great place to hunt rattlesnakes!
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:10 am to Azkiger
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:14 am to Eurocat
They're not.
There's not battery banks large enough to support "the grid", only individual homes and small businesses, and not for long if youre running ac.
So the author was wrong.
Since the author was mistaken, and Trump was mistaken, what are your thoughts on both? Both literally Hitler, right? Or did you give the author a pass? You did post his article here. You wouldn't be posting literally Hitler propaganda here would you?
There's not battery banks large enough to support "the grid", only individual homes and small businesses, and not for long if youre running ac.
So the author was wrong.
Since the author was mistaken, and Trump was mistaken, what are your thoughts on both? Both literally Hitler, right? Or did you give the author a pass? You did post his article here. You wouldn't be posting literally Hitler propaganda here would you?
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 7:16 am
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:17 am to Eurocat
Are you people retarded?
Joe Biden promised to end fossil fuels. So according to the left, we should only have wind and solar.
So yeah, good luck watching your tv all day.
Joe Biden promised to end fossil fuels. So according to the left, we should only have wind and solar.
So yeah, good luck watching your tv all day.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:19 am to Eurocat
You vote for people who openly protect pedophiles, then admonish those who see how horrific their actions are. You hold no moral high ground on any topic.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:20 am to dgnx6
quote:
Joe Biden promised to end fossil fuels
In one term? Link to this claim?
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:22 am to Eurocat
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Eurocat
What an embarrassing post. To fall for such a poorly written article is simply pathetic.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:24 am to Powerman
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In one term? Link to this claim?
Why qualify the term? He said it. In 2019. Why are you always the contrarian? Especially when you are so easily proven ignorant?
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:25 am to BBONDS25
He's poorly educated and poor to boot. Eurotrash doesn't have much else to offer around here.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:26 am to BBONDS25
Biden was also going to cure cancer.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 7:31 am to Swamp Angel
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Man! You've got one of the worst cases of it I've seen to date.
But he brings praise of the Marxist Mamdani to the board. He's a weird one.
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