I’m sure Donald Trump has never been in a coal bin or even held a lump of coal in his hand so what does he know?

It’s not how the electrical grid works.

In other words they are giant clay pigeons with a "SHOOT ME HERE!!!" sign.

We made tile pipe and flu liners. One summer, my last month of work I got to fire kilns. The kilns were huge igloo-shaped structures made of brick and the clay tile were placed inside to be cooked.
There were 10 fire boxes spaced around the kiln that I had to shovel coal into, and get the clinkers out with a bar that weighed almost as much as me. You had to watch the fire would blow back on you. The trick was to raise the temperature inside the kiln so many degrees every 8 hour shift, work was around the clock.
I worked firing kilns for about a month before I had to go back to school. I spit black for 2 weeks after I quit.
After many years the owner decided to switch to natural gas, no fireman was needed and the temperatures could be much better regulated.

Also, someone should show Krasnov pictures of Pittsburgh before and after heavy coal usage.

Showing, once again, that everything Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent touches, dies/turns to shit.

What. An. Asshole.

We are going steam punk! That is the modernized military that people have been asking for: steam powered, lots of valves and gears and smoke and pollution.

It perfectly fits into our new dystopian hellscape.

I don't know what this means. The more I read it the more insane it is and the less sense this makes.

What the hell is going on?!? Like facilities? Like bases? Are we taking facilities off the normal power grid and building coal fired power plants? Are we going to have members of the military working in coal fired power plants shoveling coal?

None of this makes sense.

For a coal fired power plant you need railroad tracks running to the plant bringing train cars full of coal. You need to dump that coal into a crusher which grinds the coal into fine powder which is sprayed into a furnace. After the coal powder is burned you need to empty out the furnace of all the leftover hazardous materials and load them into train cars that haul the hazardous materials to storage facilities which poison all the local streams and rivers.

Operating a coal fired power plant is considerately more expensive than natural gas plant. Coal powered power plants can't turn a profit and is a bad business decision.

Everything is transactional to him. I wish someone would find out about these kickbacks and bribes he receives!

Goddamn, this moron in chief continues to suck massively every day

The chimneys can get fitted with scrubbers, so that the smoke that is emitted looks white instead of black -- but that does not mean that it's clean. Nor does it mean that it's harmless.
So now we intend to expose military personnel, their spouses and children, and civilians to unnecessary levels of polutants, and in return ..... trump gets a new award from some 'coal club'!

...is that a lot of military bases aren't in the catchment areas of power companies that still have coal plants.

Quick example: Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA, buys power from Tacoma Public Utilities. That company makes almost all its electricity through hydropower - no coal at all.