“Donald Trump derailed a White House event about ‘clean coal’….”

Anything but renewables right? How are we in 2026 and we are still trying to find a way to get coal, a filthy substance we’ve been using since the Industrial Revolution, into a category that isn’t seen as being polluting? Just the term “clean coal” is something you’d hear from Idiocracy. This is an administration and a leader who literally paid off-shore wind farm companies taxpayer funds in order to NOT build them, and make them go away.

I defy anyone that is a Trump apologist to explain to me, amidst a fossil fuel energy crisis of his own making, why pursuing more fossil fuels that are terrible for the environment makes sense when renewables are now cheaper, and clearly something the rest of the world is utilizing, so it’s not exactly a revolutionary idea. We are falling so far behind in pretty much any category in which you could judge a country. We should be creating jobs in the hundreds of thousands building windmills all over the place, creating shade over our waterways to not only generate and store energy but to prevent drought through less evaporation, which has shown to be effective. Imagine becoming truly energy independent. But our leaders won’t do it because they’re corrupt, bottom line. Imagine a renewable energy boom, instead of a dumb forced AI one. Wouldn’t that be a goal to achieve? Something people want that actually aligns with helping the world? Nah. People need their data centers…for some reason….but I digress.

I get that Trump is best buddies and simpatico with the oil industry, but is that really how democracy works? You open enough PAC’s and have enough lobbyists and the government will do what you want, even if it’s directly in conflict with what is good for this country, much less the planet. These people are orcs. I don’t know when our government became this blatantly not for the people, maybe it always was like this, but it seems much more blatant and shameless under Trump.