Trump Calls Out European Leaders FROM STAGE During Barnburner Davos Speech, with RealClearPolitics

What this episode is about

In a controversial speech at Davos, Trump criticized European leaders for their reliance on wind energy, arguing that countries with more windmills tend to experience greater economic difficulties. He claimed that while China manufactures most windmills, it lacks substantial wind farms, citing this as evidence of poor energy policy among nations that invest heavily in wind energy.

Key takeaways

• Trump's windmill critique: Are they eco-saviors or eco-nightmares? Depends on who’s spinning the narrative.
• China’s windmill production but limited usage reveals an uncanny strategy: sell to the 'stupid' while conserving resources.
• Megan's summer tale cautions: windmills might beautify backdrops, but do they demolish coastal landscapes and ecosystems?
• European energy woes suggest that renewable dreams may not be all sunshine and rainbows if mismanaged.
• Trump’s analysis channels skepticism: Is 'green energy' leading us toward prosperity or just spinning our wheels?

Who speaks in this episode?

• Megyn Kelly (Guest) · 5 min speaking
• Tom (Guest) · 4 min speaking
• Andrew (Guest) · 2 min speaking
• Carl (Guest) · 2 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Ted Kennedy
2. 9:00 – 12:00: Birch Gold Group

Notable quotes from "Trump Calls Out European Leaders FROM STAGE During Barnburner Davos Speech, with RealClearPolitics"

• Ago, I remember when it dawned on me when Ted Kennedy was all the liberals were We got to have wind. We gota have we got to have these wind farms. And Ted Kennedy was You're not putting those things off of Martha's.

  about Ted Kennedy · at 2:38

• Will this be the year you decide to talk to somebody from Birch Gold Group? you've been thinking about it.

  about Birch Gold Group · at 11:01

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Ted Kennedy — Person · Referenced historical political figure (anecdotal example) · 1 mention · first at 2:40
  Used as an illustrative anecdote about elite opposition to local wind projects (Martha’s Vineyard), supporting the speakers’ critique of wind farms.

Companies & orgs

• Birch Gold Group — Company · 1 mention · first at 11:03

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Trump went on this riff about windmills and how the more windmills they have in a country, the the the worse it is. Uh

0:06 we have it. Hold on. Let me interject it quickly, but hold your thought because I do want to hear the the back end. Uh Sat 3 here.

0:13 There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place and they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses and the worse that country is doing. China makes almost all of the windmills. And yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that? It's a good way of looking at they're smart. China is very smart. They make them. They sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them. Other than that, I think they're fabulous. by the way.

0:52 Go ahead, Tom. It's classic Trump. I do want to fact check him on the on the wind farms in China and see how many there are.

1:00 Well, there's wind farms all over Texas, Tom. I mean, well, yeah, exist. Yeah. Well, of course, under Joe Biden, they were subsidized, but they're a nightmare. Excuse me. They're a nightmare.

1:10 Wind farms are disgusting. They they they barely get like the light in this studio on, and they're an eyes sore. And they're killing the whales. They really are. Go look at Michael Shelonburgger's.

1:22 They kill the whales. They kill the birds. And they're really actually not very good on a variety of levels, but

1:28 they're toxic. Those huge blades. It's they're as long as an air like a 747 aircraft and there are multiple of them on each windmill. One falls into your water. Your summer's effed. Your kids not going into the ocean. It's like broken toxins everywhere. For what? to so like you can the same as like me blowing air in this studio. It's barely any energy. It's a nightmare. Sorry, I've got strong

1:52 I was gonna say, how do you really feel about windmills, Megan? Cuz I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore and we've been dealing with this for years now. So, I've become a bit of an expert on them and they're really truly a nightmare for the environ. Like, you may think that they may help with global warming. Let me tell you something they don't help with. The environment, the existing earth is completely toxified and polluted by windmills. And for what? We're the coal captains of the world. We have tons of oil. We have so many wonderful natural resources that we can tap into that is more than like blowing like a little desk fan at the expense of our wildlife and our sea life and our vistas up and down the beautiful east and west coasts of America. Sorry, Tom.

2:32 That's okay. You triggered Megan. Tom, I did. You know, a couple of decades ago, I remember when it dawned on me when when Ted Kennedy was like, you know, all the all the liberals were like, "We got to have wind. We gota have we got to have these wind farms." And Ted Kennedy was like, "You're not putting those things off of Martha's Vineyard, you know." And I was like, "Oh, okay. I wonder why." Um, so anyway,

2:54 and look what happened. Look what happened two summers ago. The a windmill collapsed. It had some sort of a problem and the blades fell into the water and the people in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard were affected and couldn't swim and the kids were like not able to go in the water. It's just like taking a toxic stew, dumping it into your ocean and then putting your three-year-old in it. It's a no. I mean, I already lived that swimming in the Hudson River at my grandparents boatyard in the 1970s. I could have been at NASA, okay? But because of that, I wound up sitting at this desk of trying to save the next gen.

3:32 That is great. Well, that was quite a digression, I must say. What were we talking about? Um, no, look, I

3:38 Well, he's right about the windmills. That's the point. And he he was attacking Europe on energy.

3:42 Exactly. And he and he is right about the windmills. any but it it it speaks to this um this idea that again the message of the Trump administration going to Davos in addition to speaking about Greenland was hey we're we're pursuing policies that are different from what you guys have all been pursuing here at the WF and all your Davos elites for the last 40 years and we're we've come here to say those policies have failed and the proof is in the pudding if you look at growth rates across Europe and birth rates across Europe and mass migration and all of the welfare that they all the money they spent. We talked about this on our show a little bit. You can see the pendulum is now swinging back in the other direction in places like Denmark and Sweden and some of those countries who have who are these are not populist countries necessarily and and they've imported all of these migrants from

4:30 Northern Africa completely changed the the nature, the landscape and the culture. Um, and so I think this is a message that deep down in their hearts they already know, a lot of Europeans already know that they've been on the wrong track. And as I said, you know, Trump is saying, and I think he, you know, he said, I'm Scottish and German and, you know, I was derived from Europe. And we want Europe to succeed. We want Europe to be strong and prosperous. Um, and and and we will be great partners with you. Um, but you need to be sort of get your own houses in order. And I think that message it's it resonates. It resonates I think at home uh with Americans but it also resonates with a lot of people abroad.

5:09 Yeah. Here's a little bit more on the energy point uh sat too where he hits them for relying on others for energy in Europe.

5:18 Here in Europe we've seen the fate that the radical left tried to impose on America. They tried very hard. Germany now generates 22% less electricity than it did in 2017. And it's not the current chancellor's fault. He's solving the problem. He's going to do a great job. But what they did before he got there, the United Kingdom produces just onethird of the total energy from all sources that it did in 1999. Think of that one-third. and they're sitting on top of the North Sea, one of the greatest reserves anywhere in the world.

5:59 And this is, and we've heard this from him from a for a while, Carl, because he's very proud of bringing down gas prices here in America with the drill, baby drill. you know, all options are on the table and has been touting as he hit his one-year mark in the second term how gas prices have fallen even below $2 in some places. I mean, it's really that it's remarkable. I speaking of my childhood when I learned how to drive back in 1987, I remember it was like a big deal if the gas prices if you could find one that was under $1. Now, that was like 40 years ago. Oh my god. Not quite, but like four decades ago was about a dollar a gallon. And Trump's talking about under his energy policies in more and more places it's under two. And in several places it's just over $2 a gallon. That is huge. And he's standing up there all these European leaders saying you could have the same if only you didn't pursue this obscene climate

7:00 change agenda which is holding you back and as a result holding us back in our partnership with you.

7:05 Yeah, I think that's right, Megan. the I I I I I don't want to agree with you, but I do. So, the thing is though, this, you know, we used to hear this. I when Trump was first elected, I moderated a panel. Real Clear did an event. Uh I think American Petroleum Institute was the sponsor. And because it was Real Clear, I said, "Okay, you can have some petroleum guys there, oil, gas, coal. Um let's get some I won't I won't I won't mention windmills, Megan, but I'll mention solar. solar and and you know straight out conservationist we had and and and nuclear and the nuclear guys were amazing because they looked like they'd had a reprieve the the the global warming the my beef with the global warming scare always was this if you really believed all these things you're saying you would champion nuclear power and they never did they opposed it same people groups like NRDC that really should know better and it was partly

7:59 cultural you know they came from the left and there was no nukes I I understood the coalition politics element of it. But if you really believed in global warming was a threat, you would favor you would have all of the above. And they would say all of the above, but they didn't really mean it. They meant all the above except natural gas, coal, and you know, fossil fuels, but and but they didn't also want nuclear. Germany and these countries, they've stopped building nuclear power plants. They've taken coal fired crazy.

8:24 They've taken coal off. What is China doing? Uh I don't I don't know about China and windmills. Again, Tom's right. You have to fact check Trump. He just sort of wings it sometimes. But I know

8:34 our information is they do have they do have windmills in China and and I presume wind farms. I think it's a question of scale like how many

8:40 but they're also building they're building nuclear power plants. They're building coal fire plants. They China really is doing all the above. And if you cared about the economy

8:49 and the environment because you have to care about both you would favor these other sources that that the disfavored sources particularly nuclear power. And so what Trump is talking to these guy, you know, he has his own way of speaking, but he's telling Europe is use some common sense for Germany to take these plants off of offline and not build nuclear power plants and then have to buy gas from Russia while they're trying to oppose Russia. You know, it it it's not it's it's a mess of governance. And what he's really saying to them, I think, is, you know, roll up your sleeves, get to work, do do good for your economy, quit being so politically correct, quit being hamstrung by, you know, your ideology or what's the fat of the moment. I he's talking to them like he's a business guy. And I think that that's a message they probably need to hear and most people in Europe probably want to hear.

9:37 He you know, Andrew, when I listened to the speech today, what he was, it was it was very much in in line with that speech JD. advance made when he was over there and speaking to our European counterparts like you got to stop this. You got to stop with the open borders and the mass migration. You got to stop with the free speech crackdowns. Like if we're going to have this long-standing partnership where we're bffs and special relationship, start acting like it like start behaving like something that is familiar to us. And to me, this was Trump completely doubling down on that with a different a different a slightly different angle. He mentioned those things, but his his overall message to me was stop with the freeloading. like those those days are done. You know, you had the president of the European Union um stand up yesterday and say, "Oh, well, you know, I guess times are changing and while we're really

10:21 nostalgic for the way it used to be, we have to accept it and we're going to have to just like lean into our independence here in Europe." And he had all these leftists like crying a tear like, "Oh, he's broken up our our BFF relationship with Europe." And it's no, Trump is looking at them saying, "No, you're the leech friend who always makes me pay when we go to the movies. everything we do. We have dinner, I pay. We have drinks, I pay. We go to the movies, I pay. You And by the way, I'm not even asking you to pay when we go to the movies. I'm just asking you to not object when I go into the Radio Shack and steal that radio. A new year means new financial goals, like making sure your savings are secure and diversified.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Trump Calls Out European Leaders FROM STAGE During Barnburner Davos Speech, with RealClearPolitics"?

Megyn Kelly (Guest), Tom (Guest), Andrew (Guest), Carl (Guest).

What is "Trump Calls Out European Leaders FROM STAGE During Barnburner Davos Speech, with RealClearPolitics" about?

In a controversial speech at Davos, Trump criticized European leaders for their reliance on wind energy, arguing that countries with more windmills tend to experience greater economic difficulties. He claimed that while China manufactures most windmills, it lacks substantial wind farms, citing this as evidence of poor energy policy among nations that invest heavily in wind energy.

What is mentioned in this Megyn Kelly episode?

2 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Birch Gold Group, Ted Kennedy. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Trump Calls Out European Leaders FROM STAGE During Barnburner Davos Speech, with RealClearPolitics"?

The episode runs 12 min; the transcript is about 2,418 words in 29 timestamped sections.

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