President Trump: Today we're taking historic action to help American workers, miners, families, and consumers. We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful, clean coal, once and for all. And it wasn't just Biden, it was Obama, there were others, but we're doing the exact opposite, and all those plants that have been closed are going to be opened if they're modern enough, or they'll be ripped down and brand new ones will be built.We're going to put the miners back to work.

President Trump: For four long years, Joe Biden and congressional democrats tried to abolish the American coal industry. They did everything in their power while he was awake, which wasn't much. Shutting down dozens of coal plants, banning coal leases in federal lands, and putting thousands and thousands of coal miners out of work.

President Trump: Now, under the executive order that I will sign in a few moments, we're slashing unnecessary regulations that targeted the beautiful clean coal. We will rapidly expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands, and we'll streamline permitting. We will end the government bias against coal, and we're going to unlock the sweeping authorities of Defense Production Act, to turbocharge coal mining in America.

President Trump: We're gonna give a guarantee that it's not gonna happen [shutting down coal plants], so that if somebody comes in, they can not change it at a whim; they're going to have to go through hell to close you up. We're gonna give that in the form of a guarantee.

President Trump: The value of untapped coal in our country is one hundred times greater than the value of all the gold at Ft. Knox, and we're gonna unleash it, and make America rich and powerful again.

President Trump: Earlier this afternoon, I signed another executive order to strengthen our electric grid by ensuring that coal-fired power plants are always available to meet surging demand for electricity. Unlike wind and solar, coal plants can run twenty-four hours a day, in rain, sleet, or snow, and you will not be subject to the incredible blackout situation that's taking place in California, where they have blackouts all the time.

President Trump: From now on, we'll ensure that our nation's critically needed coal plants, as an example, remain online and fully operational. They're always going to be operational. And again, we're going to have guarantees that government can not close them down, close you down and destroy your lives.

President Trump: We're making a fortune with tariffs, two billion dollars a day!