In his first eight weeks working offshore, Mullin made more money than he had saved in the previous five years. “All of the promises of economic development that offshore wind was supposed to help support have evaporated,” Wilson said. Trump has long scorned offshore wind, calling the 2012 project he unsuccessfully opposed near one of his Scottish golf courses “disgusting and inappropriate.” Construction and permitting began in force not long before Trump returned to office with a promise to kill offshore wind. The thousands of offshore wind workers aren’t all suddenly unemployed.