President Donald Trump went on another one of his tirades against wind energy and misidentified the national symbol.
The 79-year-old president posted an image of a dead bird lying beneath a turbine late Tuesday, accompanied with the lament, "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!"
But eagle-eyed social media users noticed the photo showed a falcon, and not a bald eagle, and appeared to be taken in another country entirely.
Hebrew writing on the turbine indicated the photo came from Israel, and The Guardian tracked down its origins to Hedy Ben Eliahou, an employee of Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority, and was used in a 2017 report that was published by the news outlet Haaretz.
Social media users swooped in to attack the president's blunder, and the Department of Energy, which shared Trump's post, drew a community note on X.
"The image is not of a U.S. bald eagle," read the community note. "It shows a falcon killed by a wind turbine in Israel in 2017. The photo appears in a Haaretz article by Zafrir Rinat published Dec. 20, 2017."
"Morons are in charge. complete drooling idiots," groaned the Lincoln Project's Jeff Timmer.
"Endless lies," sighed the popular Tennessee Holler account.
"This man is LITERALLY INSANE. Literally," posted Bluesky user EarthMomma. "He had a bald eagle on his desk that actually attacked him and yet he still cannot identify a bald eagle. And evidently the WIND is a dangerous murderer."
"The President of the United States doesn’t know what a f------ Bald Eagle looks like," remarked podcaster Boston Brian. "Let that f------ sink in for a second."
"Grandpa is drinking again," said podcaster Spencer Hakimian.
"Why does everything that comes from Trump HAVE to be a lie?" wondered Bluesky user Jerry Snodgrass.
"Dozy Don doesn’t know what America’s bird looks like???" posted California Gov. Gavin Newsom's account.
