His comment didn’t make a lot of sense to me.
It sounds like he’s saying that oil is cheap and wind can’t compete so let’s subsidize it.
While I don’t have any issues with him having investments, its pretty unseemly to push subsidies in the direction of his investments (if he has them)
So he said he can appreciate the concept of subsidies for such -- but not for a country with the debt we have. I'd say he answered admirably.
(From the article) "Trump: noted that it can be hard for wind to be competitive in energy production particularly when prices for fossil fuels are so low, so 'you need subsidies.'"
Cripplecreek: It sounds like he's saying that oil is cheap and wind can't compete so let's subsidize it.
That is exactly what it sounded like to me, too.