Countries that subsidise wind power like the UK are "stupid", Donald Trump has said, as he announced nearly 700 million dollars (£521 million) of support for the US coal industry.The president argued many successful nations, such as China, use the fossil fuel, while "the real great failures" had adopted the renewable energy source.Mr Trump has long voiced his opposition to wind turbines, particularly those offshore, witnessed by his unsuccessful legal battle with the Scottish Government to stop

Countries that subsidise wind power like the UK are "stupid", Donald Trump has said, as he announced nearly 700 million dollars (£521 million) of support for the US coal industry.The president argued many successful nations, such as China, use the fossil fuel, while "the real great failures" had adopted the renewable energy source.Mr Trump has long voiced his opposition to wind turbines, particularly those offshore, witnessed by his unsuccessful legal battle with the Scottish Government to stop a development visible from his Aberdeenshire golf course.