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14. Speaking of dinosaurs (and fossil fuel), here's Trump...
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 02:41 PM
Saturday

...in an embarrassing interview about how "we're doing coal!". He absolutely loathes renewable energy in any form. In fact, he has infamously described wind, solar, etc. as "not our kind of energy", whatever the hell "our energy" is supposed to be.

Trump was recently interviewed by the execrable Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday show for Fox "News". The takeaway messages were: "we're doing coal!", "I don't want windmills", solar farms are "ugly as hell", and "they cover up half a mountain". For many years now, Trump's had two particularly inscrutable obsessions: destroying the alternative energy economy, and returning the nation to the days of coal-fired power plants.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220884159#post6
https://democraticunderground.com/10143573453#post1

Clip from the David Pakman show (see 0:35-1:57).

Trump: "We don't want windmills, we don't want solar--we're doing coal!"

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