US President Donald Trump has blamed wind turbines for killing iconic American bald eagles in a year’s end social media post that hit on one of his pet peeves.

There were two problems with this latest lament: the picture in his Truth Social post on Tuesday was taken years ago in Israel, and it’s not a bald eagle.

Trump shared a zoomed-in image of a bird on rocky ground beneath a wind turbine, writing: “Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!”

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States and appears on its seal, currency, stamps and military insignia.

An official White House account and the US Department of Energy both shared the post on X, amplifying the latest attack on the wind energy sector from Trump, who has long opposed the power-generating turbines he claims are unsightly, expensive and dangerous to wildlife.

But the same photo appeared in a 2017 article from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which credited it to the Israel Nature and........

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