President Trump weighed in on the Mid-Atlantic power crisis on Truth Social early Tuesday, echoing our warnings last week about the fallout from Democrats’ multi-year “green” crusade to replace reliable, low-cost fossil fuel power plants with unreliable solar and wind amid power demand surges from AI data centers and other electrification trends. The result has been financially crushing for some residents across the Mid-Atlantic. In Maryland, Democrats’ approval ratings are already tanking.
“STUPID AND UGLY WINDMILLS ARE KILLING NEW JERSEY,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social moments ago.
He continued, “Energy prices up 28% this year, and not enough electricity to take care of state. STOP THE WINDMILLS!“
Trump’s use of Truth Social to address the unfolding power bill crisis in the Mid-Atlantic comes after our year-long reporting (read) on the emerging crisis, which has been amplified nationally in recent weeks…
The Trump administration needs to address the power bill crisis by showing voters in both states that a common denominator of destructive policies is driving the crisis: A disastrous green energy agenda, pushed by radical leftist lawmakers, is dismantling reliable and affordable fossil fuel power generation in favor of unstable solar and wind. This has unleashed a power bill armageddon on working-class and middle-class households, as well as mom-and-pop businesses, all while baseload power demand surges in the era of AI data centers.
Fox News jumped on the power bill crisis story last week…
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Perhaps New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s decision to shutter the state’s nuclear and coal plants, without a one-to-one replacement for lost capacity on the grid, was a catastrophic error. His administration’s prioritization of offshore wind farms and other green energy projects has left the grid more fragile than ever.
Murphy took six power plants offline and invested a billion dollars in chasing his offshore wind dream. Mikie enabled the obsessions of climate activists by voting in favor of the trillion dollar green new scam (aka, inflation reduction act). Instead of investing in existing… pic.twitter.com/ka2EfhB9W6
— Protect Our Coast NJ (@njcoast_protect) July 29, 2025
In Maryland, the power bill crisis seems much more severe than in New Jersey!
Failed green policies are crushing the very working poor and middle class that Democrats have promised to protect. Yet the green utopia that was pitched was always a lie.
According to Change Annapolis, a bipartisan group of taxpayers, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s ratings plunged over a multitude of issues, including power bills: “Marylanders are tired of his presidential vanity tour, crushing tax hikes, and an energy crisis of his own making,” adding, “He’s polling worse than O’Malley and Glendening at this point in their terms.”
The power bill crisis is still in its early stages. Goldman analyst Hongcen Wei wrote an alarming note to clients last week, warning that a majority of U.S. power grids “have already reached dangerously low spare capacity levels that are at or below the critical reliability threshold. This raises blackout threats and results in power price spikes during high-demand usage hours.”
In other words, the power crisis has arrived, and it’s only going to get worse from here. The Trump administration needs to effectively communicate to voters that skyrocketing power bills are the direct result of failed green policies in the age of AI data centers.
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