Trump screwed the coal works, he helped their CEO's and owners get golden parachutes, protected them from bankruptcy issues with financial and environmental deregulations. He helped them rob coal miners of their pensions and renege on their health costs by strengthening employer rights and protections..

"During the campaign and in rallies, President Trump promised to save the flagging coal industry and put the nation's coal miners "back to work." In fact, more U.S. coal plants have been deactivated in the first two years of Trump's than were taken offline during President Obama's entire first term. Coal use in 2018 was also the lowest it's been since Carter was in office.

Part of the story is the role that renewables, specifically wind and solar, are playing in the protracted fade-out of our dirtiest fuel. The 2018 U.S. Energy and Employment Report found that there are three times as many Jobs in clean energy jobs as there are in the fossil fuel industry. For quite some time, conventional wisdom has held that renewables pose a serious threat to the future of coal. Now it seems clear the future has arrived." https://www.ecowatch.com/wind-solar-texas-2625971760.html