Trump blasts windmills in EU trade talks: 'We will not allow a windmill to be built' in US

President Trump while meeting this weekend for trade talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen roundly criticized wind energy including saying he won't allow massive windmills, or wind turnbines, to be built in the United States.

On Sunday, Trump called the wind industry a “con job.”

“The other thing I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States," he said. "They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains. It’s the most expensive form of energy. It’s no good. They’re made in China, almost all of them.

“When they start to rust and rot in eight years, you can't really turn them off, you can't bury them, they won't let you bury the propellers – you know, the props – because they're a certain type of fiber that doesn't go well with the land, that's what they say, the environmentalists say you can't bury them."

Von der Leyen, the former German defense minister under former Chancellor Angela Merkel, has supported wind energy and renewables generally as her country's energy prices have increased amid an attempt to transition the power grid from fossil fuels and nuclear energy to renewables, the Daily Wire reported.

“In all fairness, Germany tried it, and wind doesn’t work,” Trump said. “You need subsidy for wind, and energy should not need subsidy. With energy, you make money, you don’t lose money. But more important than that, it ruins the landscape, it kills the birds, they're noisy.”

He said that in coastal Massachuset more whales have washed ashore recently because the windmills are "driving them loco, it's driving them crazy."