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Donald Trump stopped by the offices of his journalistic nemesis the New York Times on Hizoban Higasa no onnaTuesday to chat with senior reporters and editors.

The captivating full transcript from the sit-down has since been released, and amongst discussing his feelings towards the publication and his plans for America, the climate change skeptic had some uh, interestingthings to say about the wind.

Trump's hot take on the wind? It's deceiving.

When New York Timespolitical reporter Michael Barbaro pressed the president-elect on reports that he'd met with Brexit leaders about wind farms, Trump began to babble about birds. "I have a problem with wind," he boldly declared.

"... I mean, the wind is a very deceiving thing," he explained, before launching into a familiar-sounding argument. "First of all, we don’t make the windmills in the United States," he said. He went on to describe that windmills are made in Germany and Japan from "massive amounts of steel, which goes into the atmosphere."

Then Trump reiterated his strong feelings that windmills "kill birds" and without subsidy, "for the most part, they don't work."

"You go to a windmill, you know in California they have the, what is it? The golden eagle? And they’re like, if you shoot a golden eagle, they go to jail for five years and yet they kill them by, they actually have to get permits that they’re only allowed to kill 30 or something in one year," he said.

After Trump blamed windmills for killing symbols of American freedom, he acknowledged that he has been saying the same thing about the wind industry for years.

Throughout his campaign Trump has insisted global warming is a complete "hoax," but he seemed to step back from that stance yesterday. Trump told the Timeshe has "an open mind" on whether to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, so perhaps he is finally paying heed to the many climate scientists who believe global warming is a very real problem.

And as the U.S Department of Energy's 2015 Wind Technologies Market Report reflects, "wind has been a significant source of new electric generation capacity additions" in the country and there was a surge in annual wind capacity additions in the last year.

"Sustained low wind energy prices and solid growth in installations helped make 2015 one of the best years for our nation’s renewable energy market," said Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, David Friedman. "These reports show that with more American homes and businesses powered by wind energy than ever before, our nation’s clean energy future is bright."

Hear that, Trump? The future of that deceiving wind looks bright.

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