"Just about all of the windmills are made in China -- the structures," Trump said on January 9. "All you have to do is say to China: 'How many windmill areas do you have in China?' So far, they are not able to find any," he claimed.
"They make them and sell them to suckers like Europe. And suckers like the United States before. They are the worst form of energy," the US president concluded.
The US president's comments reverberated across the world in several languages including Polish and French.
Trump has long complained that wind turbines ruin views and are expensive.
In addition to his order attempting to ban new wind farm permits, his administration moved to block all federal loans for wind energy. "They're losers. They lose money. They destroy your landscape. They kill your birds," he said on January 9.
But China is the top wind power market in the world with a strong domestic network in operation, experts say.
Matthew Burgess, an assistant professor at the Department of Economics College of Business at the University of Wyoming (archived here), told AFP on January 12 that China is the world's number one producer of wind energy.
When it comes to wind's share of a national grid "Denmark wins that one, and the US is slightly ahead of China," he said.
According to the latest report by think tank Ember Energy, China's wind generation in 2024 amounted to 992 terawatt-hours (TWh), which is equivalent to 40 percent of the global wind generation (archived here).
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