Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump | President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/climate/coal-miners-black-lung-protest-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8._E0J.p33qPH-rNOcO

by silence7

25 comments

  1. Why does the greedy billionaire not care about us in the coal mines they ask

  2. He’s a cheerleader for the coal mine and processing owners but couldn’t care less about the actual laboring miners as they are poor and won’t stay at his hotel or get tee times at his course.

  5. Time for the coal miners to start learning and Blair Mountain.

  8. Nice to know that we still have to follow a bunch of people that have made “never doing the right thing” into an irl meme

    Might as well have ACME from the cartoons running the global economy

  9. Trump not giving a fuck about workers? What else is new?

  11. So Trump’s a self serving narcissist you say. Tell me more.

  14. but I thought it was the cleanest coal ***ever!!!***.

  15. So did they not vote for him? Let me guess. They did, BUT they thought his proven track record of not paying workers, treating everyone like garbage did not apply to them.

  17. Yeah the “I support the working man, see I’m serving people at McDonald’s and wearing an orange vest so I know what it’s like to be like you people” was just a grift. He’s never been for the working class. Remember how he said he would take away taxes on overtime pay? Well it’s bc he wants to do away with overtime pay. Anyone remember the GOP pushing for the 50-60 hrs work week? No overtime pay there, just piling on the hours.

  18. Trump won about 3/4ths of votes in coal mining communities. Congrats, y’all, you’re getting what you voted for!

  19. I can only laugh at an article like this.

    “We knew he hated people, the same people we hated, so we thought he would show *us* favouritism in our struggles!”

  20. Did they vote for him? Republicans want zero regulations.

  21. He was a cheerleader for the coal barons. You’re cannon fodder to make money off of

  22. I feel terrible for them. I wish they, and everyone, did a little bit more critical thinking and research. “Hmmmm this guy always lies, stiffs the working man and doesn’t pay employees. Maybe I should listen to that.”

  23. tRump is all for coal miners, all for them to go to work earn millions for the owners and when they get sick…..he and his administration (sic) don’t give two shits about the workers. He’s proven by the way he has a history of screwed contractors and employees his whole life.

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