ENERGY [ALTERNATIVE]/ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Count Chuck Grassley as among those displeased by President Donald Trump’s attacks on wind energy. The longtime Iowa GOP senator told Iowa reporters on Wednesday [4-3-19] afternoon that Trump’s comments implying turbines cause cancer was ‘idiotic.’ Then he explained to Capitol Hill reporters that the president needs to stop railing against wind power…He said Trump’s cancer comments were probably ‘tongue in cheek’ and chalked up his divide with the president on generational differences and that Grassley was more experienced with the energy crisis of the 1970s. Trump said at a fundraiser on Tuesday night that ‘if you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations. Your house just went down 75 percent in value.’ He added: ‘They say the noise causes cancer. You tell me that one, okay?’ The conservative Grassley said that he has to teach a lot of new politicians about wind energy and Trump is no different. And as far the cancer claim, which has no factual basis, Grassley called it ‘tongue in cheek.’”
–Burgess Everett, “Grassley schools Trump on ‘idiotic’ wind turbines and cancer comment,” Politico, April 3, 2019 6:49 pm