Trump thinks clean coal is when workers mine coal and then actually clean it

[babylonsister]

Trump thinks clean coal is when workers mine coal and then actually ‘clean it’
Joe Romm
2 hours ago

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION BY RYAN J. GILL, NOTMYEARTHNOTMYPROBLEM.COM



How off the rails was President Donald Trump’s rally speech in Phoenix Tuesday night? He spouted utter nonsense on clean coal, and it didn’t even make CNN’s story, “Donald Trump’s 57 most outrageous quotes from his Arizona speech.”

Trump appears to believe that clean coal — which, it must always be pointed out, doesn’t actually exist — is when workers mine coal and then physically “clean it.” That does not happen, but facts have never stopped Trump.

“We’ve ended the war on beautiful, clean coal, and it’s just been announced that a second, brand-new coal mine,” said Trump, “where they’re going to take out clean coal — meaning, they’re taking out coal. They’re going to clean it — is opening in the state of Pennsylvania, the second one.”

There are many misstatements or outright lies in those brief lines. First and foremost, “clean coal” is a fantasy. You can’t “clean it.” In terms of carbon pollution, coal is the dirtiest of fossil fuels, so you couldn’t clean coal unless you could remove or capture all the carbon and bury it.

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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-thinks-clean-coal-is-when-workers-mine-coal-and-then-actually-clean-it-b56a2d4317bc/amp/

[elleng]

1. Right, but here's what it is (and isn't.)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127112510

[FM123]

2. He thinks that all you have to do is call room service, and voila!

[Beartracks]

3. Beautiful new coal-washing plants, hiring huge numbers...

... of skilled coal washers, washing and drying that beautiful coal, getting all the dirt off, making it the best, the cleanest, the shiniest coal!

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[JoeStuckInOH]

4. These new plants clean coal so well, they're practically polshed into diamonds.

Diamond... coal... it's all made of the same thing.

Someone should tell him we can use those diamonds to pay down the national debt.

[brush]

10. Please. Don't. Don't. He's liable to believe it just as he believes you wash coal to clean it.

It's still so disturbing to me that so many people voted for this bozo and still support him.

[procon]

5. He thinks workers are standing at long rows of sinks in a big industrial building,

hand washing every chunk of coal.

Hair nets = check
plastic apron = check
rubber gloves = check
floral scented detergent = check

[Docreed2003]

6. He really is King Dipshit

[TeamPooka]

7. Republicans chose the dumbest guy in the bar

To be their leader

[oswaldactedalone]

8. Just checking in to DU since 7am

and I thought for sure this thread title was a weak attempt at humor. He actually believes that you clean coal?

[spanone]

9. trump doesn't think.