Confused Trump claims Americans don’t eat bacon due to ‘horrible wind power’

Republican Donald Trump made some very odd comments regarding wind power being the reason people don’t eat bacon in a genuinely bizarre town hall in Wisconsin.
The oddball claim came when a rally attendee asked about his plan to bring down inflation.
Trump has often been criticized for his “word salad” approach to speaking, which can be hard to follow, and his tendency to post nonsensical rampages on Truth Social, his social media platform. 
“You take a look at bacon and some of these products, and some people don’t eat bacon anymore,” the GOP presidential nominee said in response to an inflation question.
Trump said he would bring energy prices down, a frequent line from the Trump campaign throughout the election cycle.
He has criticized the green policies of the Biden administration, often saying that on his first day in office, he will “Drill, baby, Drill” to get more nonrenewable resources to bring down energy prices.
“When we get energy down – you know this was caused by their horrible energy. Wind – they want wind all over the place,” he added.
“But when it doesn’t blow we have a little problem,” Trump added.
It seems the connection Trump was trying to make is that lower energy prices will also help lower other costs like food, in this case bacon.
“You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don’t know if you’ve heard it but it’s a little bit true,” before launching into questionable food inflation numbers.
“Food has gone up at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. “We’ve never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent.”
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Trump has used this attack line regularly, even though food price inflation in the US is only slightly higher than at the end of the Trump Administration in January 2020.
In July, it was measured to be at 2.2 percent, 0.4 percent higher than in January 2020 at 1.8 percent, and 2.7 percent lower than in 2023.