Trump torches offshore wind projects as feds halt new leases and order sweeping review

Atlantic City, NJ — President Donald Trump reignited criticism of offshore wind energy projects in a viral post Monday morning, slamming wind turbines as “stupid and ugly” while blaming them for rising energy prices and power reliability issues in New Jersey—just as a sweeping federal order surfaced, halting all new wind leasing across the Outer Continental Shelf.

In a post made at 7:28 a.m. on his Truth Social account, Trump declared that windmills were “killing New Jersey,” citing a 28% spike in energy costs and claiming the state no longer has enough electricity to function properly. He ended the message with an all-caps call to “STOP THE WINDMILLS!”

The post follows a memorandum issued earlier thi

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