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Coal Workers Thank President Trump as White House Touts Coal's Comeback

February 12, 2026 · The White House · 0:01:39

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What happened

A White House video featured frontline coal workers describing the industry under President Trump. The opening voiceover said the most important people present were those who get their hands dirty to keep America running at full speed — the frontline coal workers.

Caleb Blackford, a haul truck driver at the Bear Run Mine, said what the president has done for the coal industry is very important and helps keep electricity prices down. Vernon Roach III, a coal miner at Alabama’s Shoal Creek Mine, said miners know President Trump loves clean coal. Another miner with 16 years in the industry, originally from a small coal town in southern West Virginia, explained how conveyor belts carry coal from 600 to 1,000 feet below ground to power plants, and thanked the president for his commitment to coal as an affordable, reliable source of electricity through extreme cold and summer heat, as the workers stated it.

President Trump appeared in the video calling coal the really dependable form of energy and clean, beautiful coal, and the workers closed by thanking him for knowing that clean coal keeps the lights on.

Why it matters

The video is the White House’s worker-voiced case for its coal revival — the energy-affordability argument delivered by miners rather than officials.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump has ENDED the Radical Left’s war on coal & bringing it back stronger than ever”, 2026-02-12 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-02-12). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.