Donald Trump is against wind turbines. Joe Biden criticizes his successor. All developments in the news blog.
12:22 p.m.: US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he wants to prevent the construction of new wind turbines in the USA. On his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed that windmills were “an economic and environmental disaster.” And further: “I don’t want a single one to be built during my term in office.” At the same time, he announced that he wanted to demolish “thousands of dead and broken wind turbines as quickly as possible.”
Trump has railed against wind energy several times – without providing any evidence for his statements. At the beginning of January, the controversial Republican was already speaking out against wind turbines in the North Sea. He doubts man-made climate change.
In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, renewable energy is the fastest-growing segment of America’s electric grid. This development is due to government regulations for the expansion of renewable energies, technological progress and tax breaks at the federal level. The government under Joe Biden has particularly promoted the expansion of solar and wind energy.
Many regions governed by Trump allies also benefit from these investments. Numerous jobs have been created there through renewable energies. Texas alone generated almost 30 percent of the wind power produced in the USA in 2023.
4.45 a.m.: US President-elect Donald Trump has claimed success for an emerging agreement between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas. “This epic ceasefire agreement could only come about as a result of our historic victory in November,” he says. Trump had previously threatened Hamas several times that if such an agreement was not reached, “all hell would break loose.” “And that’s not going to be good for Hamas, and it’s not going to be good for anyone, frankly,” Trump said.
The outgoing US President Joe Biden sees it differently. “Is this a joke?” he asked reporters at the White House. He emphasized that the deal had already been proposed by him in May last year. “This agreement was developed and implemented under my administration, but its terms will largely be implemented by the next administration. In recent days we have spoken as a team.”
2:25 a.m.: A few days before the inauguration of the future US President Donald Trump, the musical program continues to take shape. The national anthem at the ceremony at the Capitol in the US capital Washington will be sung by tenor Christopher Macchio, Trump’s team said. An old friend will also sing at the swearing-in on Monday: country singer Lee Greenwood. Greenwood’s song “God Bless the USA” is something like the unofficial Trump anthem. It was traditionally played during Trump’s election campaign appearances when the Republican took the stage. Trump recently marketed a Bible together with the 82-year-old.
Greenwood will also appear at an event on the eve of the inauguration. The rock rapper Kid Rock is also expected there; he already performed at the Republican party convention in Milwaukee in the summer. It had previously been announced that the once legendary disco group Village People also wanted to provide musical accompaniment to the event.
Trump’s team also confirmed reports that well-known country singer Carrie Underwood will sing “America the Beautiful” at Monday’s swearing-in.
2:22 a.m.: In his farewell speech, US President Joe Biden warned that an “oligarchy” was emerging in the USA. The outgoing leader on Wednesday referred to a “dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a few very wealthy people” and warned that an “oligarchy is taking shape in America, extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy.”
