Overview
- The president posted, “Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!” alongside a photo of a dead bird under turbines.
- Reporters and image-search tools linked the picture to a 2017 Haaretz report from Israel, crediting photographer Hedy Ben Eliahou and identifying the bird as a falcon or kestrel.
- An official White House account on X reshared the claim, and the U.S. Department of Energy posted it as well before an X community note flagged the image’s true origin.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom and other commentators publicly mocked the post, pointing out the misidentification of America’s national bird.
- The episode lands as the administration moves to halt or withdraw permits for offshore wind projects, drawing lawsuits from developers and a Massachusetts judge’s ruling against an executive order to stop projects.