Newsom trolls ‘Dozy Don’ after Trump posts photograph of lifeless falcon and claims windmills are killing ‘our beautiful Bald Eagles’ | EUROtoday

California Governor Gavin Newsom has trolled Donald Trump as soon as once more, questioning the president’s information of America’s nationwide chicken after he posted a photograph of a lifeless falcon and claimed windmills are killing “our beautiful Bald Eagles.”

In Trump’s newest assault towards windmills, extra precisely referred to as wind generators, he shared a photograph to Truth Social on Tuesday of a chicken mendacity on the bottom in entrance of a number of of the power producers and wrote, “Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!”

But as a number of retailers have identified, the photograph is of a falcon, not a bald eagle, and it was taken in Israel in 2017. The photograph was shared in Israeli newspapers Haaretz in 2017 and The Times of Israel in 2022.

The Department of Energy even shared Trump’s put up on social media. The Independent has reached out to the company asking whether it is conscious of the photograph’s origins.

Reacting to Trump’s put up, Newsom’s press staff wrote on X, “Dozy Don doesn’t know what America’s bird looks like???”

Newsom has been poking enjoyable on the president on-line for months as a option to combat towards his agenda, telling late-night host Stephen Colbert in September that he was placing “a mirror up to Trump and the absurdity of what’s going on in this country.”

Trump’s hatred of wind generators goes again to at the very least 2012, when he appeared earlier than the Scottish Parliament to oppose practically a dozen generators, which have been in the end constructed close to his Aberdeenshire golf course.

During the primary 12 months of his second presidency, Trump’s regulators have sought to withdraw permits for six offshore wind tasks on the East Coast and stopped the development of two extra, Politico reported earlier this month.

While talking to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Trump bashed renewable power.

“They’re a joke. They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They’re not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great,” Trump mentioned, calling wind generators “so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate.”