Trump loves "Clean Coal"... Turns out, he doesn even know what the term "Clean Coal" means.

[DetlefK]

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

“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.”

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The phrase “clean coal” refers to expensive and mostly non-commercial technologies that reduce pollution and capture carbon dioxide when coal is burned. Even Robert Murray, CEO of the country’s largest privately held coal-mining company, doesn’t believe in that. “Carbon capture and sequestration does not work,” he said last month. “It is neither practical nor economic.”

[leftstreet]

1. LOL do they wash it with soap?

[NastyRiffraff]

2. Trump actually thinks they put coal into giant washing machines

complete with Tide Plus Febreze. And Downy.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He seems to think that there are actually clean coal mines, or that all you have to do

is scrub the coal a bit. Has anybody ever bothered to tell him that "clean coal" refers to methods of processing coal that supposedly causes it to pollute less (though it doesn't really work) - or doesn't he care because "mining clean coal" sounds so great?

[spanone]

4. 'beautiful, clean coal' ...this alone should make him too stupid to be 'president'

[dalton99a]

5. Fucking moron

[demosincebirth]

6. He doesn't know it's an oxymoron. Stupidity is contagious