President Donald Trump appeared to get his birds mixed up on Tuesday when he made a snide social media post about wind energy.
On Truth Social, Trump posted a picture of a dead bird in a field of wind turbines. “Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!” the caption reads. It was amplified by the White House and viewed millions of times on X.
However, the bird in the picture isn’t a bald eagle, as the president claims. It’s an Israeli falcon.
“Unfortunately for Trump’s effort to sow outrage among American patriots at what he proclaimed to be an image of the national bird laid low, closer inspection reveals the photograph does not show a bald eagle and was not taken in the United States,” The Guardian reported after Trump posted the image. “The image actually shows a falcon that was killed at a wind farm in Israel eight years ago.”
The Guardian also noted there were clues as to what kind of bird was in the picture that Trump seemingly overlooked “in a rush.”
“The first is that the bird is missing the distinctive markings of a bald eagle. The second is that the turbine blamed for its death appears to have Hebrew writing on it,” according to the report.
Trump has consistently bashed wind energy, and his second administration has rolled back several Biden-era clean energy programs. In December, Trump halted permits on thousands of new wind energy projects, citing reasons stretching from national security risks to the number of birds that die in wind farms each year.
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