President spends part of his UN address complaining about windmills; he says they ruin Scotland.

Hon. The eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Speaker on Tuesday afternoon: the President of the United States. The address was scheduled for fifteen minutes. The address ran fifty-seven.

In those fifty-seven minutes, the President covered, by Axios’s own list, ten separate topics. One of them was windmills. Specifically, the President said windmills are pathetic, called them so pathetic and so bad, and said they were ruining the beautiful Scottish and English countryside. He came back to windmills three separate times.

I would like to walk you through why this is funny. Funny, not outrageous. This is a funny one.

Number one. The President’s own golf course is at Aberdeen, on the Scottish coast, and the windmills he is mad about are visible from the back nine. This is a documented, decade-long grievance. He sued the Scottish government over a wind farm in 2013 and lost. The wind farm has been there since 2018. Now he is complaining about the same wind farm at the United Nations. Hon. The United Nations. They have eighty seconds of speaking time per topic and you are using yours on the wind farm visible from your golf course.

Number two. The cost. The President said wind power is the most expensive energy ever conceived. Wind power, on land, in 2025, is cheaper than natural gas in many markets and roughly equal to coal without any subsidy at all. Per the Energy Information Administration. Per the IEA. Per the actual, written, boring energy data. The cheap part is why China builds more of them. He said China builds them and doesn’t use them. China is, by factor of three, the world’s largest installer of wind power for its own grid.

Number three. The Scottish. The Scottish countryside is one of the windiest parts of Europe. That is the whole point. That is why there are wind farms. The same way there are oil rigs in the Gulf. You build the energy infrastructure where the energy is. The Scots, in fact, like the wind farms. Their power bill goes down.

You ever notice how the man with the most prestigious microphone in the world, on the day he is given fifteen minutes to address the member states of the United Nations, uses some of the time to be mad at the view from his golf course.

Funny how that works.