President-elect Donald Trump has revisited his weird disdain for “windmills” in a late-night social media message. “The U.K. is making a very big mistake. Open up the North Sea. Get rid of Windmills!” Trump’s post on Truth Social said. He was referring to the U.K implementing a higher tax on North Sea oil and gas producers, and U.S. company APA Corp’s unit Apache’s plans to exit the area by year-end 2029. The British government plans to use revenue from oil and gas to raise funds for renewable energy projects as part of a wider shift away from non-renewable energy sources. Trump’s post linked to a bulletin about APA’s plans which referred to the U.K.’s “windfall tax”—a levy on gas and oil companies whose profits spiked due to rising global energy costs. It did not, however, make any mention of windmills. Trump has brought up his hatred of wind turbines, which he calls “windmills,” in the past. His obsession with wind turbines—which he blames for a variety of domestic and foreign policy ills—originates from a dispute he had with the Scottish Parliament over a North Sea wind farm overlooked by his golf course outside Aberdeen, Scotland.
