Posted on 04/15/2025 6:37:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
So much crazy happens with the Trump administration every day that some downright weird but incredibly telling stuff gets lost in the noise. A recent example was the scene on April 8 at the White House where, in the middle of his raging trade war, our president decided it was the perfect time to sign an executive order to bolster coal mining.
“We’re bringing back an industry that was abandoned,” said President Trump, surrounded by coal miners in hard hats, members of a work force that has declined to about 40,000 from 70,000 over the last decade, according to Reuters. “We’re going to put the miners back to work.” For good measure, Trump added about these miners: “You could give them a penthouse on Fifth Avenue and a different kind of a job and they’d be unhappy. They want to mine coal; that’s what they love to do.”
It’s commendable that the president honors men and women who work with their hands. But when he singles out coal miners for praise while he tries to zero out development of clean-tech jobs from his budget — in 2023, the U.S. wind energy industry employed approximately 130,000 workers, while the solar industry employed 280,000 — it suggests that Trump is trapped in a right-wing woke ideology that doesn’t recognize green manufacturing jobs as “real” jobs. How is that going to make us stronger?
This whole Trump II administration is a cruel farce. Trump ran for another term not because he had any clue how to transform America for the 21st century. He ran in order to stay out of jail and to get revenge on those who, with real evidence, had tried to hold him accountable to the law. I doubt he has ever spent five...
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Would you like some cheese to go along with that whine, Tommy?
Which “tech” jobs are he ending?
Gov workers are NOT tech.
I’d hate for my claim to fame to be a bedwetter, but to each their own.
He’s like the opposite of Michelle Obama when her husband was winning.
If the author has a country, it’s not America.
How many green jobs make money? How many green jobs are subsidized by the tax payer? Windmills don’t make money. I don’t know if solar does. Seems like China makes money dumping their cheapo toxic solar panels on the US.
It was NOTabandoned. It was FORCED to shrink by out of control big government pursuing leftist / marxist "climate" goals. But the real goal was to neuter the USA.
These leftist creeps love wrapping a flag around themselves while they push perversion, “climate change” grifts, anti-white hate etc etc etc.
Pussy
I am not sure what country you think is “your country,” Tom.
I just know America’s doing great!
His socialist/communist vision for America is being dismantled bit by bit daily! Too bad Tommy!
Ah, the New York Slimes trying to generate fear and apprehension amongst its weak sisters. That why it’s Slimes.
That which we globalists abandon, must remain abandoned forever. Or else the big blue ball with the lat-long lines and a face will get angry.
NYT feeling a little overwhelmed are they
LOL. Whatever.
Friedman?
What Mullah doesn’t want a piece of that?
That’s because the author never lived through the terrifying times when we were afraid commies would take over - only to see them blossom like weeds in media like the NYT.
Amazing. Most of us here on FR believed the country was doomed if Trump was not declared the election winner.
We would have ended up in a similar fate to the UK.
Friedman wasn’t afraid for his country’s future when Biden was in charge.
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