Tilting at windmills: Trump laments death of bald eagle in the US ... which was really a falcon in Israel

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/30/trump-wind-turbine-bald-eagle-falcon

A pity that Trump, or one of the 18 intelligence agencies reporting to him, did not trace the image back to its source

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Late Tuesday, the US president posted an image of a dead bird beneath a turbine on social media, accompanied by the lament: "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles"

The post was immediately amplified by an official White House account on X with more than a million followers.

Unfortunately for Trump's effort to sow outrage among American patriots at what he proclaimed to be an image of the national bird laid low, closer inspection reveals the photograph does not show a bald eagle and was not taken in the United States. The image actually shows a falcon that was killed at a wind farm in Israel eight years ago.

In his rush to post the image on his social media platform, Trump overlooked a pair of visual clues that might have given him pause. The first is that the bird is missing the distinctive markings of a bald eagle. The second is that the turbine blamed for its death appears to have Hebrew writing on it.

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[prodigitalson]

1. a bird

a country
stop nitpicking

[GoCubsGo]

2. Someone needs to inform this imbecile that his damn high-rise buildings kill more birds

than all of the windmills in the country. Not that the pathological liar and the boobs in his cult care about facts...

[UTUSN]

3. He's afraid of live birds.

[doc03]

4. I am no expert on bald eagles but from what I

have heard DDT was responsible for the near extinction of the bald eagle. We see them in Ohio now where they were extinct a few years ago.

[John1956PA]

5. The next thing will be Trump posting some obviously farcical picture like this one to try to make some point: