Trump wails at photo, 'windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!'. Only problem is it's not a bald eagle and isn't in the US – We Got This Covered
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the State Department Kennedy Center Honors medal presentation dinner at the U.S. Department of State on December 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. The 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees are Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, the rock band KISS, Gloria Gaynor, and Michael Crawford. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images)
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Trump wails at photo, ‘windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!’. Only problem is it’s not a bald eagle and isn’t in the US

You'd think he'd be able to identify the bird on the presidential seal...

Not even his most rabid supporters expect Donald Trump to say anything particularly intelligent. Sure, he has a nice line in hateful and confusing waffle, but with his brain collapsing further and further into a pudding-like state each day, his already loopy speeches are now indecipherably weird.

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But even we hoped that Trump might be able to identify a bald eagle. It’s literally right in the middle of the presidential seal! Images of it are emblazoned across the White House! Trump himself has been personally menaced by one!

But, alas, despite all this, Trump apparently doesn’t know what a bald eagle looks like. In a bizarre Truth Social post, he posted an image of a dead bird next to a wind farm:

“Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!”

As the, uh, eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted, this bird is neither bald nor an eagle. It appears to be some kind of falcon. But wait, I hear you cry, falcons being killed by U.S. wind farms is also bad!

A swing and a miss, sir!

Well, maybe. But if you look a little closer, you’ll spot Hebrew on the closest turbine, revealing that this particular windfarm (and dead falcon) is in Israel. The capper on all this is that the photo isn’t even recent, having been sourced from 2017. So a fail on all counts.

But, naturally, this isn’t really about dead bald eagles (or dead falcons), it’s about trying to stamp out the renewable energy sector while promoting highly polluting fossil fuels. Trump’s billionaire buddies in the fossil fuel industry probably sent this photo over to him and told him it was a bald eagle, likely concluding his mangled brain is too far gone to be able to correctly identify birds.

But, if you happen to be reading this Donald, we can only underline that bald eagles are easily identified due to their white feathers on their head, which gives them their “bald” name. The more you know, eh?


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