MSNBC's "Morning Joe" showed a supercut of Donald Trump ranting about windmills after his latest tirade.
The former president bizarrely claimed that windmills were "driving whales a little batty" and causing them to beach themselves, and the show's producers rolled a video of Trump making similarly mystifying attacks on wind energy.
"Did he just say, 'I know a lot about wind?'" said co-host Mika Brzezinski. "Okay, a look at Donald Trump's odd obsession with windmills, which, as you heard at the top, he took to a new level yesterday in South Carolina, adding whales to his vendetta against what are actually wind turbines."
"I have no comment," said co-host Willie Geist. "I don't know what to say. He started with saying they're killing our beautiful bald eagles, now the whales. If I'm following the logic, they're being driven crazy, it's a psychological problem with the whales. They're just giving themselves up to the beaches."
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Contributor Jonathan Lemire was confused by the ex-president's comments, but he offered an explanation for his pique.
"Wind turbines tend to be above the water, whales tend to be in the water," Lemire said. "There is a little back story here. The origin people believe about Donald Trump's hatred of windmills is because of a lawsuit filed about the Scottish government by his golf course in Aberdeen, which he was convinced would ruin the view, therefore drive down membership costs, so that's the origin story of his hatred for all things windmills."
"It always goes back to the golf course," Geist added.
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