Trump Bashes Wind Turbines Using Misidentified Photo

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Posted Dec 31, 2025 6:45 AM CST
Trump Bashes Wind Turbines Using Misidentified Photo
President Trump is seen as he walks to Marine One from the White House on Dec. 19 in Washington.   (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, file)

President Trump's latest strike against wind power appears to have missed its mark—by a country and a species. Trump on Tuesday shared an image on Truth Social of a dead bird beneath a wind turbine, warning that "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" The Independent reports that the Department of Energy reshared that post on X. But the photo, it turns out, doesn't show a bald eagle, and it wasn't taken in the United States, reports the Guardian.

The bird is a falcon, and the image comes from a wind farm in Israel and dates back about eight years. The Guardian sees "a pair of visual clues" to that end: The bird lacks the bald eagle's signature physical features, and the turbine in the background bears Hebrew writing. The paper did some digging and managed to trace the image to Hedy Ben Eliahou of Israel's Nature and Parks Authority; the photo appeared in a 2017 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. That report did, however, support Trump's broader complaint: Israeli nature officials warned that turbines there cause "significant damage" to birds and bats.

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