“beautiful clean Coal”

A century ago my immigrant grandfathers were coal miners. It was not a line of work that they wanted to pass on to their children nor did they.

Next he’ll bring back Blockbuster Video

Stooges on Parade

Ah yes, the bedrock Conservative belief that Government should tell for-profit businesses what their business should be.

Can’t fix stupid or criminal.

Disgusting He’s going to kill us all.

We have a surplus of coal in WV THAT WE CANT FUCKING SELL

The future of making shoes and t shirts 🤣

He has an affinity for coal because it's all he ever received for Christmas. It's all he knows.

If it’s so clean, let him shovel it.

Bumblefuck is such a … there are no terms that describe his actions anymore. He literally makes me ill. And I mean literally

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The stupid smarts!

I’m waiting for his EO on resurrecting Fotomat and Leaded Gas for the Golden Age of Stupid.

Black lungs

Seems like it’s time to bring up this apt fake ad once again. youtu.be/W-_U1Z0vezw?...

As they cut approximately 400 HHS staffing working on monitoring coal miners for black lung via a mobile health clinic with free screenings…

Force them to continue production? Wow.

Coal is the future of what kids will be getting in their Xmas stocking after all of these tarriffs kick in.

Clean coal is a myth. Even if they scrub 90 percent of the carbon dioxide, plants are still pumping out mercury and nitrogen oxide.

Look at the faces of the miners behind him. They KNOW, there is no such thing as “clean” coal! They also know, what coal is left is expensive to mine and is the dirtiest of it all! They KNOW, he’s full of shit!

And if there are few communities/consumers willing to purchase it? Utilities should invest in what makes economic sense for the future. Trump can lower mileage standards for autos, but that won't make consumers go back to buying gas guzzlers.

back to the bright future that awaited America two centuries ago

What a farce!

🤦🏻‍♀️ #14thNOW

Utter insanity

Well, he does consider climate change to be a hoax.

March 2025 was the warmest March on record. 🔥 Burning coal will make it warmer still 🔥

Wait until he finds out that coal proponents and investors *want* those closings

No such thing

So...coal good, fluoride bad... Working backwards towards Victorian London... Workhouses will be next.

And debtors prison.

we uh already got those in Mississippi, your state's next

Do we? I’m over by Natchez!

kinda? They also lease human beings to fast food restaurants. mississippitoday.org/2020/01/09/r...

Oh, good, Trump will finally have to go to prison

Lowering ages of children that will be allowed to work in #GOPOhio world. Definitely going backwards.

They have to replace all the migrant workers with someone. Kids are the easiest to exploit

That’s their plan. Out education department was renamed “ Workforce development “!!!

…and getting all the old diseases that go with that time too…

Gotta have the authentic experience!

I think that’s the plan. 😱

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Thank you for sharing this -- and for writing it. We're badly in need of a collective "squid to the face" ( a perfect term!)...and more good teachers, like the one you seem to have had.

Thanks, Dave. My teachers - every single one of them at my super-rural, public school were fantastic. Amazing what those underpaid public servants did while having a department of education with federal oversight, isn't it? And my own mom was one of 'em, go figure.

"beautiful clean shit"

Growing up, we had a coal furnace, it was miserable because thick dust was everywhere.

Coal fired roadsters. Just the ticket.

Off topic. What is that painting called?

A Girl with a Dead Canary (Jean Baptiste Greuze)

He’s channeling the best Australia could offer as a prime minister. Brings a tear to my eye.

Yay ! Let’s Pollute even more than before ! Cut down all the trees ! Who needs oxygen ?!?!?

Absurd. The next generation of coal miners are cooking meth and dealing oxy.

Meanwhile, in China: www.popularmechanics.com/science/ener...

where exactly are these “coal-fired power PLANs” that are scheduled for closure

Is anybody else getting tired of everything being "beautiful" with him? Beautiful, clean coal. Beautiful tariffs.

You get black lung and you get black lung. Black lung for everyone

I remember when my neighbors still had a coal furnace that they used to heat their house, our yard was always soot covered! There is no such thing as clean coal when you are burning it! There may be less dirty burning coal, but definitely not "beautiful clean" coal!

An oxymoron.

A "true vision for the future!" NOT!

Cough.

Black is white

Proudly leading the world back to the 19th century.

somebody hand donald a piece of coal. If he takes it it will stain his hands and if he doesn't it will obliterate the coal industry.

Make Black Lung & Air Pollution Great Again! ☠️

Perhaps he should do a photo op inside a coal mine.

Two obese men extolling a filthy, antiquated energy source

& they’ll be dead when our climate is at +3 degrees warmer & those remaining will have to try to survive a hostile & unproductive environment

So the government is telling businesses what they have to produce and how. Isn’t there a name for that sort of economy?

while making coal mines less safe

That goes hand in hand. Less safety= more production = more coals= more pollution. A winning formula for the orange fucking king.🤬🤬

Somerset,MA. The plant was dismantled years ago.Dirtiest coal plant at the top of Narragansett bay. Word is underwater cables will eventually transmit power from offshore wind power to where the power plant was and utilize existing power lines to feed into the grid. This asshole is going backwards

If a piece of beautiful clean coal was rubbed on Trump’s face would Trump get black face or would the coal get orange face?

If that isn't a personification of Boss Hogg, I don't know what is....

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Coal is dirty! Coal is the most expensive source of energy. The Coal Museum is powered by Solar! Coal kills.

Clean coal is a myth. Cleaner coal utilizes a syn gas process and isn't a lot better. This and the up front cost is why it never caught on.

1. He can't force the coal plants to produce. They need to buy into their markets and they're just not competitive. 2. He isn't helping them at all. They can make more money on just capacity payments and generating during peak load during the summer.

Bring on the Black Lung

No such thing as CLEAN coal

Maybe if you applied a tremendous amount of heat and pressure, well then you’d have a clean diamond, but then Trump would have the most beautiful diamonds on earth.

as I recall, in Tudor England approx 550 years ago, someone proposed burning coal instead of wood, and was roundly pilloried by all because of all the filth burning coal would have caused

I believe there was also something called the Coal Fog in London that killed hundreds.

... the Pea Soupers of the 40s/50s that led to Clean Air Acts. Essentially winter weather delivered a temperature inversion, trapping emissions from industrial or domestic coal fires, especially sulfur dioxide, which wind and weather could not dissipate. Hundreds? Tens of thousands

Thank you!

He killed 1.1 million Americans with his COVID policies so...

This is the same guy who literally thought the stealth bomber was invisible.

"beautiful clean coal ash"

Might the Molly Maguires make a comeback? People, please learn history.

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Black lung will make an epic comeback

And RFKJr will support it

more people work at Arby's than work mining coal.

Dangerous for the climate and coal miners.

It's a beautiful vision 🙄 from 100 years ago!

He thinks he's a king or a god. Is he gonna bring back any other extinct things? I'd like a pet wooly mammoth or a T-Rex to keep the raccoons out of my trash.

Let's put all of those fired federal workers into the new coal mines!

All smoke & mirrors

Or in this case, just smoke. Thick, black, lung-killing smoke.

He thinks it's gold because that's all he ever got for Christmas.

The kicker will be him making companies revert to coal.

And with deep cuts at OSHA and the anti union movement, miners will be forced to work under the same conditions their ancestors did 125 years ago.

As a region transitions to new energy sources, he wants to go backward?

Joe Manchin can buy another yacht.

They literally want to kill us.

My thoughts exactly. Cancer is the only one winning here.

If this doesn't do it, they always have the sweat shops, wars, measles, climate change, poverty and famine...

Children down the coal mines again here we go. Ah America, you never disappoint 😀

Where would black lung disease be without it?

How long before he brings back asbestos- again

How does this work? A private company? Ho gonna pay the workers? He just likes pretending to sign things that don’t matter at all.

Great alternative!

It's what plants crave!

Brawndo!!! 😂💦💦

My bond villain theory: They are doing everything they can to squeeze the last dollar from fossil fuel, and intentionally cranking up the pollution, which they KNOW is broiling the lower latitudes. Trump and Putin want to rule the Arctic circle - Canada, Greenland, Russia. White supremacist eden.

All those brown and black tropical people gone. He's already selling US citizenship to white Russian oligarchs, and white S. African racists. For now, they'll own America's bankrupted real estate. Then Canada's. May need to use force. Russia and US have that in spades. China gets Russian far east.

I know. Sounds like Sci-Fi Hope it is

So much for clean energy and a brighter, healthier future! Back to worked sucking in coal dust and getting black lung! Man of the people strikes again!

Except black lung.

Our visionary president!

He's living in the 19th C.

Someone please take his sharpie away!!

Pushing coal in 2025, these guys are indeed dinosaurs.

When parody becomes reality. smosh to self-soothe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MF6...

So he’s forcing them to stay open now? Certainly sounds that way.

But "The Future of Nothing" is something Trump understands quite well. It's the same as #ETTD

What’s funny is it wasn’t green policies that killed coal in the US It was his buddies in the oil industry pairing new directional drilling techniques with fracking—the “shale boom”—causing massive decreases in domestic natural gas prices (& a ton of new gas power plants), squeezing out coal plants

“Clean coal”…sounds like a paradox to me!

Like intelligent maga!!!

I KNEW COAL was coming back. They want 10 year olds in the mine like it’s 1825

What ignoramous what a bafoon ...

The orange imbecile just continuing on his imbecilect path of trashing America at every corner that he can... When will it be enough to remove him from office and remove his entire regime from our government?

He's not even legitimately the president.

✊✊✊✊✊✊☝️

He would start a world war rather than leave and possibly go to prison. I mean this literally. He must be REMOVED immediately and without notice. He intends complete destruction to the USA.

Since we're going back to the 1890's, will trump also be reviving the buggy whip industry?

19th century obsession continues while we need 21st century solutions.

It gives asthma, a bright future. Too bad the only thing we can invest in would be inhalers and maybe filter masks

Literally no one except him and 1000 remaining coal workers think this is a solid plan..

I watched about three minutes of the speech because I'm developing an allergy to his voice. The hard-working man behind him, looked completely cornered, scared, and stunned – like so many of us 💔

coal is the cockroach of energy

Trump is an animal survivalist with the basis of natures and he is trying to bring us all down to his level. He enjoys the chaos he is creating. It gives him a sense of power. I will be glad when the world is rid of him and not too soon.

This was the whitest EO I’ve seen him sign. Didn’t see a POC in the whole room.

Opening the coal mines maybe a good thing until the workers try to unionize then they will just close down again.

I thought Republicans opposed regulation of business, yet here's an executive order which proposes to require businesspeople who haven't had six bankruptcies (to date) to continue to operate businesses which they consider economically unviable.

Make America Old Again.

It’s just one stupid, mindless stunt after another.

Are his maga member going to be the ones working them? Because we won't be.

Why can't he go back to something useful, like... I dunno... Disco?

McKinley also loved his coal

So he's destroying the well paying green technology manufacturing jobs Biden created so that he can burn coal inside the no longer existing coal fire plants. It's 25th amendment time for grandpa trumf!

Fun fact. Go look at any recreational lake in the USA. See those fish consumption warnings for Mercury? That came from burning coal, somewhere in the world. If we keep doing it, those mercury levels will only rise. Burning coal poisons the planet.

Almost Maoist executive orders..

Old man president just can’t move forward.

While the demanding the EU buy energy from us

Not surprising. Since he wants to go back to the 1890s with manufacturing and factory jobs, he may as well bring back buildings heated with coal. Look for the elimination of women voting next.

They've sure done a nice job of eliminating all the diversity in that photo, haven't they?

These miners behind him... they will be forced to beg and disavow their union if any jobs actually come of this. It's probably all performative lies anyway. I feel bad for them. They are going to be deceived, used and discarded - but these people ought to be able to spot BS when the see it.

Are they really miners, though?

Coal miners do not want their kids to go up to be coal miners. My father's family left Nova Scotia around 1920 and moved to New York City because my grandfather didn't want his sons ending up in a mine. There's nothing new about this. It's been true of coal miners practically forever.

Oh c'mon Molly, it was the future! of the 19th century!!

Nuclear then??

He's trying to black lung those few remaining miners, fearful he'll lose a single opportunity to kill more of us in the most painful yet unnecessary way possible.

Coal miners in the US: about 28,000 Chick-fil-A employees in US: about 140,000.

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He's Giving the miners hope, which will only be ripped away at a later date..

Who needs clean air anyway? 🤨

Beautiful clean coal is as believable as the delicious refreshing water in the black tank of an RV.

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But big burly men with tears in their eyes are sooooo happy😜

...the future for cave-ins and black lung...

Cancer?

If something stupid can be done then this is what the moron will do. The US is so fucked.

2026: The year of the American Political Refugee

Ahhhh Ex. Orders, the nothing mandate.

In the Netherlands the last mines closed in 1974, so the US got at least 40 years to go

Coal-the future filled with pollution, asthma, pneumonia for humans…

Less than 45,000 jobs nation wide in coal. 450,000 in green energy production

Order more iron LUngs !

Indeed. Why would industries, i.e. power generators, who’ve invested in & progressed w/installing pricey tech to convert from coal to burning a cheaper natural gas (or renewables), go back to burning coal? Also, most of 40s, 50s & 60s era coal-burning power plants are unserviceable and shut down.

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Yes, clean coal. Who needs to breathe clean air. 😡

As @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social always says - It’s not a thing. In 2025, the U.S. is set to see a significant increase in coal power plant retirements, with an estimated 8.1 gigawatts (GW) of capacity slated for closure.

Well, the future of environmental disaster, human lives lost, inefficient energy, just to name a few.

I can’t wait until we are fully back to 1912.

"Sorry! We're all out of solar, wind and other alternatives, BUT WAIT! ( Clerk blows off dust) We got this here COAL!!"

Hey Donny, go see your master and bring back Chernobyl.

He is SUCH an idiot. He idiots hard… 🫠

dead people is a core republican value.

MAGA👉MA burn A

The dirtiest, deadliest, and inefficient source of energy. Literally kills a million people a year globally. Directly kills them

Can we take his fucking pen away? Moron.

Ugh.

I have shaken my head so much the last couple of months that my neck is getting arthritis.

"Coal Miners' Dodderer!" (I'll let myself out)

And along with gutting the EPA so coal companies can pollute communities, and gutting the agency that does mine safety inspections, who would want to work in the mines…oh yeah, the MAGAs that voted for this.

So, not *allow* them to continue production, but *force* them to. When the State controls the means of production, that's called what, now?

Since doesn’t actually write or read these E.O.s he’s signing, can someone PLEASE slip one in where he confesses to high treason and insider trading and tenders his resignation immediately?

Simple solution. I like it ! We have suspected for some time that he does not have the ability to read complex sentences.

He has dyslexia

Yes

GREAT IDEA!

Propping up dead skunks, including itself

Trump should burn coal in the Oval Office fireplace all day and all night to sample just how clean coal is.

Here's the new line of cars Trump is rolling out. Between coal and horse and buggies, we will be the envy of the ????, uh...make that LAUGHING STOCK of the world.

At this rate he’ll be buying Cuba’s car stock, which would be kind of ironic!

The future of accelerated climate change

A whirling dervish of executive orders and light bulb moments that only have to be reversed a day later… What happened to groceries?🙄

Gotta love West Virginians being like "I'm going to screw over my country and my planet so that my kids can someday be forced into the same horrible, low-paying job that'll likely be the cause of my death some day"

SMDH

Effing idiocy.

Some of these companies were probably glad to get these old things off their books: but noooo!

He really wants to go back to the fantastic year of 1913. So dumb

My father has emphysema from working as an engineer in a coal fired electric plant for 40 years.

More coal is never the right answer. I'm sorry about your father.

Thank you. He has shockingly made it to 90 but he has suffered since his 50s with breathing issues.

Bring back black lung! To go with measles, polio, unsafe food, drugs and agricultural products, asbestos, agent orange, leaded gas, cigarettes for all, DDT…no more seat belts or helmets. Why not?

Cough cough...

That sounds pretty....um, what's the word....communistic.

What is his fixation with 19th century bullshit? Literally nobody wants this. Not even the fake miners standing behind him.

Right when the new release of “Handmaiden’s Tale”.

Talk about destroying the world in a “who cares about you” move to future generations…. Greed, the world’s biggest enemy .

The worst part is that this doesn't even make logical or financial sense. Coal isn't just bad for the environment, it's also ludicrously inefficient. This is so blatantly a donor-motivated move by people who got caught holding the coal-mine bag.

Absolutely!

We aren't about the future anymore, we are about who ever can grease Big Oranges palm.

The coal industry took massive losses during Trump season 01

As I recall, turncoat Manchin was really pissed off about that.

You can buy him with a coupon.

They must be using that CLEAN Coal

A lot of people will be getting lumps of coal for Christmas, so could do big numbers in Q4

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Away America goes back to the 1940’s…😞

Meanwhile on Earth One... This dumbass wirlthdrew funding for Cleveland Cliffs to upgrade their blast furnaces in the Middletown, OH facility. The Biden administration awarded it under the infrastructure bill. Its Vance's hometown. Fn idiots www.eenews.net/articles/cle...

He’s so stupid

“Neither vanity nor the need for adoration belongs among the mortal sins; but they are unsurpassed prompters when we need suggestions for making fools of ourselves.” - Hannah Arendt We are heading backwards into the future, with a narcissistic idiot leading the way.

Except for black lung.

Paradise.... is just around the corner...... youtu.be/DEy6EuZp9IY

"AMERICANS ARE ALWAYS COMING TO ME, TEARS IN THEIR EYES, SAYING SIR, SIR, WE WANT BLACK LUNG BACK, ALONG WITH MEASLES AND LEGALIZED LYNCH MOBS"

#ImpeachmentSeason #NOW #EmolumentsClause #SlavaUkraine #Resist #arrest #prosecute #Impeach “Just Say No” TO tЯ☭mpublican Traitors supporting Traitor tЯ☭mp & P☭tin! #DefeatRussia #DemocracyMatters #SupportUkraine @electiontruth.bsky.social #VerifyTheVote #RussianTail

I hate that we need coal, but we do. It needs to be safely mined and responsibly used. You can't smelt steel using solar panels.

Long live Blair Mountain

Oh, yes, let's do keep the ancient, outdated coal-fired plants open. ". . . the coal plants retired in 2015 were quite old (the oldest began operation in 1944, the year the Allies landed in Normandy). . . " siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Not a smile in the house.

That imbecile still thinks that if you give coal a nice little bubble bath, you get clean coal.

Pollution and smog killing folks. Will there be anyone left to pick up the pieces.

Whale blubber needs a comeback….we’re already heading towards company stores

Maybe we can make cars run on whale oil like in Futurama.

Ambergris is the future

When you have both chambers of congress but you’re still governing with EOs says a lot.

Just sheer stupidity.

Oh come on… I am old enough to remember “Black Lung”. I joy of not being able to breath..

𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯 𝔢𝔵𝔢𝔠𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔞 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔩𝔞𝔴 ,𝔰𝔬 𝔣𝔞𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔠𝔢𝔰 𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔧𝔲𝔡𝔤𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱 !

This is so stupid. it Takes many years to build coal handling facilities and even more years to build anything to burn it. Some of this equipment used in these facilities is no longer available and will need to be built from scratch. The only market is to ship it, but now there are no customers.

How many of those guys go in the mines? Looks good though!

“Coal-fired power PLANS” These people can’t even spell.

It's the future of #GlobalWarming

Why are they fat, white men?

Next up, Trump will tout the benefits of asbestos.

Like he did last time www.ewg.org/news-insight...

OMG

Coal power is a dodo bird (like Trump): 1) More expensive than wind or solar energy 2) poor energy efficiency 3) difficult & expensive to dispose of waste (toxic ponds) 4) dangerous toxic pollution for environment & human health 5) terrible GHG emitter accelerates climate crisis 6) few jobs

7) terrible effects on miners’ health, and that’s if they get out of the mine alive

A promise he broke in his first campaign, now running it back for those that forgot.

Yeah but now its signed into law using a marker made out of coal. This is serious

Glad the government is getting out of being so controlling and instead *checks notes*… demanding that old, inefficient, power plants stay in operation. Hey, does this qualify as “controlling the means of production”?

Not true. Coal is a big part of the future.... of global warming 😡

The orange menace doesn't seem to understand how the Constitution works. Executive Orders are NOT laws -- those are put in place by Congress.

Lovely - Trump bringing back pollution....

Yup, as the EPA gets shut down and deregulation kicks in, BLACK LUNG FOR EVERYONE!!!

When Democracy returns, how long will it take to restore the EPA and clean up what Trump polluted?

No more OSHA. It's going to be a grand ol' time!

"Power plans"? They are so sloppy

Oh boy, this will make Manchin happy!! Nothing he likes better than killing people with coal.

I heard Trump wants to bring back the leather tanning and type writer business back to the US. It's about damn time.

This maybe the dumbest of all these ridiculous EO.

Who uses coal?

Who are the paid actors in the background? Too old and beefy to be real coal miners. Although they could be coal executives. You know the ones who pay low wages to real coal miners

‘Beautiful clean coal’

It's just stupid that we in Germany are blowing up and demolishing our dirty coal-fired power plants for good reason! 2 days ago Ibbenbüren leveled !

Responsible climate policy for our future generations. Reduction of coal and gas-fired power plants, phasing out nuclear energy, as the problem of nuclear waste has not been solved and the technology is too risky. Increase of Solar and Wind. Next step - more storage capacity for winter months !

The goid thing about his asinine EO is that they can be rescinded.

Yes, in a country of 340+ billion people. Let's make the 45,000 people employed by coal our most urgent priority. THAT will save America!

The future of the resurgence of black lung disease. RFK jr endorses this

Gotta do this regularly.

Biggest dumb fuck ever!

The coal barons want miners to have black lung.

When is karma coming for this morbidly obese criminal

Future of black lung & copd.

coal is the solution for our automotive problem too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...

he is a menace to life on earth

Drought, Fires, Floods, brutal heat, melting icecap but yeah, The Cheeto Cheater wants to put more coal in the mix because who cares about the environment and a better future, not him or those who support him.

I grew up in 1960's northern England. One of my jobs as a child was to keep the coal scuttle filled from the bunker. One of my memories is that all the buildings looked like the one on the left. I'd have preferred not to re-visit that part of my childhood.

Funny thing is folks are painting cool old buildings that color now. Please STOP!

Make IT stop... Please, for the love of humanity...

Nuttin says lovin like sending folk back to the days of respiratory disease, being exposed to toxins and injuries. Not to mention environmental pollution. The refusal for clean energy is so wild. #HANDSOFF #INDIVISIBLE

Here in El Paso we no longer have anymore coal plants our plants are now natural gas and solar farms and connected to a nuclear power plant from AZ. Not on the Texas grid .

These people are really stupid and it’s like talking to my grandfather. They are currently 65,000 active goal jobs in the United States and a half million alternative energy jobs, including solar and wind.

bring back those buggy whips

Who doesn’t like pollution and black lung???

Make the skies black again

ew can we do? he wants to keep killing people.

Every one of those guys voted MAGA and will get screwed by trump and by their boss and by their union

Enough of this garbage rule by executive order. CONGRESS GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!