“They don't work. They're too expensive. They're not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind doesn't blow.”

Entire power systems already run on wind, including in deep-red America. Wind turbines generated 63% of Iowa's electricity in 2024, the highest share of any U.S. state, and Denmark gets nearly 60% of its electricity from wind, the most of any country. Their grids work. In April 2024, U.S. wind generation hit a record and exceeded coal-fired generation, per the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Wind's variability is real: its output is seasonal, and grid operators' accounting for it has pushed up firming costs. But wind is one of many sources feeding the grid, which is why customers do not lose power when the wind dies down. Wind supplied about 11% of all U.S. utility-scale electricity in 2025, and renewables about 24%.

U.S. Energy Information Administration: "In April 2024, coal-fired generation fell to 37.2 TWh. Wind generation, meanwhile, increased to a record 47.7 TWh."