It’s the second such mix-up in just three days.
President Donald Trump on Friday once again misidentified the national bird he repeatedly claims to care about. Three days after suggesting that a falcon in Israel was a bald eagle in America, Trump was back posting on Truth Social about why heshowing a dead bird at the base of a windmill.
However, the bird is a red kite, the location is Spain, and the image is at least 15 years old, according to a 2010 TelegraphIn a post just one minute earlier, Trump was less specific—and therefore more accurate—when he captioned a photo of an unidentified avian species flying near a windmill, “killing birds by the millions!” Changhua Coast Conservation Action, the uploader of the 2006 photo,Trump has long protested windmills, like the ones offshore the Trump International Golf Links course in Scotland, where he visited last summer.the American Bird Conservancy, which says that “collision with human-made structures such as poorly sited towers, powerlines, and wind turbines is one of the leading causes of Bald Eagle mortality.” The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast asking how many more times Trump will post about eagles using photographs of other birds. Trump, 79, should know what bald eagles look like. During a 2015 photo shoot for TIME magazine, he was filmed letting one perch on his gloved hand and on his desk at Trump Tower. When he reached for some aspirin near its talons, the bird flapped its wings and objected, causing Trump to retreat. Since then, it seems Trump’s only hands-on experience with live birds occurs during the annual Thanksgiving pardon ceremony.
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