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Miles Archer

(21,603 posts)
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 08:45 PM 8 hrs ago

Trump bemoans dead bald eagle in US -- using photo of dead falcon in Israel

Trump bemoans dead bald eagle in US — using photo of dead falcon in Israel

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674838464/

Trump appeared to get his birds mixed up on Tuesday when he made a snide social media post about wind energy.

On Truth Social, Trump posted a picture of a dead bird in a field of wind turbines. "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" the caption reads. It was amplified by the White House and viewed millions of times on X.

However, the bird in the picture isn't a bald eagle, as the president claims. It's an Israeli falcon.

"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 Guardian reported after Trump posted the image. "The image actually shows a falcon that was killed at a wind farm in Israel eight years ago."

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Trump bemoans dead bald eagle in US -- using photo of dead falcon in Israel (Original Post) Miles Archer 8 hrs ago OP
Has he forgotten our national symbol tried to bite him? GreenWave 8 hrs ago #1
"Trump gets attacked by a bald eagle" red dog 1 6 hrs ago #5
The Bad Eagle kwolf68 7 hrs ago #2
The trump whores will want him to get credit, for knowing what a bird looks like. (nt) Paladin 7 hrs ago #3
has no one told him birds aren't real??? ret5hd 6 hrs ago #4
They're bringing the DoDo back you know. For real. Maru Kitteh 5 hrs ago #6
This message was self-deleted by its author canetoad 5 hrs ago #7
I've hit two birds last year with my car. Norbert 5 hrs ago #8
This MoFo would lie about the number of thumbs he has - while holding up his hands for all to see. Marie Marie 5 hrs ago #9

kwolf68

(8,227 posts)
2. The Bad Eagle
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:12 PM
7 hrs ago

Recovered in large part because of the banning of pesticides and the Endangered Species Act. If it was up to this motherfucker the ESA would be written off the books and we'd be drinking DDT.

FUCK you Trump. Don't use anything from the natural world to advance your agenda you putz.

Response to Miles Archer (Original post)

Norbert

(7,543 posts)
8. I've hit two birds last year with my car.
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:25 PM
5 hrs ago

Maybe we should ban cars, SUVs and trucks because they kill our beautiful birds.

Marie Marie

(10,857 posts)
9. This MoFo would lie about the number of thumbs he has - while holding up his hands for all to see.
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:33 PM
5 hrs ago
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