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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 Trumps rally speech in Phoenix Tuesday night? He spouted utter nonsense on clean coal, and it didnt even make CNNs story, Donald Trumps 57 most outrageous quotes from his Arizona speech.
Trump appears to believe that clean coal which, it must always be pointed out, doesnt actually exist is when workers mine coal and then physically clean it. That does not happen, but facts have never stopped Trump.
Weve ended the war on beautiful, clean coal, and its just been announced that a second, brand-new coal mine, said Trump, where theyre going to take out clean coal meaning, theyre taking out coal. Theyre 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 cant clean it. In terms of carbon pollution, coal is the dirtiest of fossil fuels, so you couldnt clean coal unless you could remove or capture all the carbon and bury it.
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Trump thinks clean coal is when workers mine coal and then actually clean it (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2017
OP
These new plants clean coal so well, they're practically polshed into diamonds.
JoeStuckInOH
Aug 2017
#4
Please. Don't. Don't. He's liable to believe it just as he believes you wash coal to clean it.
brush
Aug 2017
#10
elleng
(131,253 posts)1. Right, but here's what it is (and isn't.)
FM123
(10,054 posts)2. He thinks that all you have to do is call room service, and voila!
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)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
(544 posts)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
(53,946 posts)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
(15,805 posts)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
(16,889 posts)6. He really is King Dipshit
TeamPooka
(24,278 posts)7. Republicans chose the dumbest guy in the bar
To be their leader
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)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
(135,914 posts)9. trump doesn't think.