Trump bizarrely claims windmills are driving whales ‘crazy’ in South Carolina speech

Trump rants about whales, speedboats and windmills at campaign rallyPool footage

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00:00 extreme regulatory attacks. The Biden administration is right now trying to bludgeon the boating

00:05 and maritime industry. We were just discussing it with a lot of boat companies back there

00:09 that create a lot of jobs and having a hard time with a boat speed limit of less than

00:16 11 miles an hour, about 10 miles an hour. In other words, like a slow golf cart.

00:24 It's like a think of it along the entire eastern part of our country. This is supposedly in

00:30 the name of preventing whale strikes, but you have a better chance of being struck by

00:35 lightning than hitting a whale with your boat. There has only been listen to this one such

00:42 whale killed off the coast of South Carolina in the last 50 years. But on the other hand,

00:47 their windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. Nobody does

00:52 anything about that. They're washing up and show. I saw it this weekend. Three of them

00:56 came up. They wouldn't you wouldn't see it once a year. Now they're coming up on a weekly

01:01 basis. The windmills are driving them crazy. They're driving. They're driving the whales,

01:08 I think a little baddie, and they're washing up on shore at levels never seen before. And

01:13 they want to stop your boats one in 50 years. Can you imagine that?