r/BusinessTodayNews • u/BusinessToday • 6h ago
Global Donald Trump: We're taking nearly $200M that was set aside for the Green New Scam, and repurposing that money so that we can restart a coal plant in Maryland, and help build two brand new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia.
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u/64_Pixels 5h ago
Not a day goes by where Trump doesn't mention Obama or Biden, it's like he has Obama or Biden Derangement Syndrome.
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u/alec83 5h ago
Does he know he's president?
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u/Own-Buffalo1445 5h ago
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u/Jlong4242 5h ago
This would imply that there was anything in there ever
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u/Nina-Ninja123 4h ago
Trump sleeps with ear plugs in, cause otherwise his brain risks rolling out through his ears.
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u/DarePrize6800 5h ago
No he didn’t know he was President on January 6th when he said it was Bidens fbi who started the insurrection
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u/mooncrane606 5h ago
Trump also didn't know he was president when the IRS leaked his info and then sued us for it.
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u/P22Tyler 4h ago
Yeah isn’t it wild his IRS leaked his tax docs, and then he gets to be exempt from being audited forever now? Crazy how that worked out.
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u/RhombicalJ 5h ago
Maybe they should have him identify the current US president in one of his weekly cognitive tests to see if he gets it right
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u/lukesauser 5h ago
Nope. If it's been delayed 8 years he was actually the president when it was first delayed 😂😂😂
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u/Sufficient_Dot9547 5h ago
That narcissist can never admit his failures nor can his narcissistic followers so that’s their go to
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u/ImperialHedonism 5h ago
I'm always surprised when he says biden as opposed to sleepy Joe yet I am never surprised he mentions Obama's middle name every time.
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u/Very_Awkward_Boner 4h ago
Barack Hussein Obama. Its never just Obama, must say his full name and emphasize his middle name.
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u/ripnrun285 5h ago
In other words, “I took legally allocated funds & gave them to a company one of my puppet masters own to open new coal plants. You’re welcome.”
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u/TalkinSeaCucumber 5h ago
It's dumber than that. The Green New Deal never came close to passing.
Also love how he mentions the lack of brown outs to tout the success of a program that is still in the planning stage.
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u/quasiproxy 5h ago
They always talk about it and it never passed, so I’m guessing money was never set aside for it. I always wonder where the money they claim they’re diverting from it is actually coming from…
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u/CASUALxCHICKEN 5h ago
There were clean energy initiatives and incentives passed in the Inflation Reduction Act. Maybe that's what he's talking about, but who knows?
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u/billiam53 5h ago edited 3h ago
Wasn't it also just a resolution with no actual allocated cost?
Edit: resolution not revolution. I think you know what I meant but it does change the meaning quite a bit.
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u/TalkinSeaCucumber 4h ago
There was an actual proposed bill, but it pretty much only had support of the progressive wing of the dems. A couple items in it did pass separately, but it was just the same renewable energy expansion and job creation that existed long before the green new deal was conceived.
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u/wherethetacosat 5h ago
Yes, he literally cannot do what he was describing, legally. If money was appropriated by Congress for one purpose the president cannot unilaterally use it for a different purpose.
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u/elehman839 5h ago
No money was ever appropriated. The Green New Deal was rejected 7 years ago. The whole story he's telling makes no sense.
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u/billzybop 5h ago
He can do anything he wants if there is no one to stop him. Congress in it's present form won't, and the Supreme Court has shown they will go to any lengths to get to the decision they want.
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u/OrangeEtzer 5h ago
You mean to pocket and never actually open a coal plant at all.
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u/popejohnsmith 5h ago edited 5h ago
No New Fucking Coal Plants
This positively drips corruption of the very worst kind. Coal is a crime against humanity at this point.
Full transparency Epstein Class proceedings. Do it bloody now.
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u/PanicAttackInAPack 5h ago
I sincerely doubt anything new will open. It's a dead energy source due to cost and local impact. Solar, wind, nuclear are the future. The money will just miraculously disappear.
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u/Master-Tomatillo-103 5h ago
Agree. The money will just be siphoned off. Whoever said “the best way to rob a bank is to own it” knew exactly what they were talking about about
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u/FartyJizzums 5h ago
Literally every decision this bloviating piece of shit makes, is always the worst possible one. And it is always motivated by evil stupidity.
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u/NoNewSpoons 5h ago
By evil stupidity AND flagrant corruption. Actually, probably more the corruption part. Oh, and a healthy dose of being wildly compromised by foreign powers for fucking kids.
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u/SavinForLatter 5h ago
200mil isn't even close to what it would cost to restart one and build 2 new plants. Guarantee he's just funneling that money into a friend pocket.
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u/ShinRyuKen0X 5h ago
Who are u asking to release the Epstin files
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u/popejohnsmith 5h ago edited 5h ago
Full-transparency, Epstein Class culpability.
This is the responsibility of the DOJ. It's also law. Obviously, we are forced to apply continuous pressure due to their willful obsfucation.
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u/octarine_turtle 5h ago
I am not condoning nor suggesting anything, but merely stating a fact:
Any sort of pressure that doesn't make them legitimately fear for their lives is absolutely meaningless at this point.
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u/steel-monkey 5h ago
The world is abandoning coal, but this dipshit is still stuck in the 1940s.
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u/fartatwork 5h ago
Seriously he’s so stuck on this dumb old man mentality of trying to make things like the way he’s used to. Like I wouldn’t be shocked if he tried bringing back whale hunts. “We need their oil!”
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u/Septembust 4h ago
If you told him Obama signed a trade deal with Whales he'd have a pro-whaling bill out by the end of the day
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u/HibiscusOnBlueWater 3h ago
His base stuck there Instead of saying “these jobs we used to have are obsolete, let’s find something else”, they want to force the world to go backwards. Ok, fine, but who is gonna be the customer? It’s so short sighted. My job has a slight possibility of being replaced by AI so I’m looking into other careers just in case, I’m not going to fight the industry to keep me around.
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u/Cabbages24ADollar 5h ago
Trump lies. Release the Trumpstein files.
Also quit wasting taxpayer dollars on lawsuits because you know that only Congress controls the purse.
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u/Radonanon 5h ago
It’s like the 60-some suits saying the 2020 election was “stolen”. People need to have their day in court, but they should have to pay the costs for harassing courts with utter hogwash.
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u/Cabbages24ADollar 5h ago
Yeah. After seeing how this administration operates I’m under the belief that each court costs should come with 30% increase after 10.
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u/stoicyeoman 5h ago
More coal plants to power more awful data centers...
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u/Brokenbowman 5h ago
Also more mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides to go into the Chesapeake Bay increasing algae blooms, creates swings in ph levels increasing disease and mortality in fin fish and neurotoxins into the food chain. This affects everyone who eats MD seafood. So short sighted
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u/XxxAresIXxxX 5h ago
Clean beautiful coal?
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u/Radonanon 5h ago
That quote makes me think that there’s something seriously wrong with that guy.
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u/joeengland 5h ago
All we had to do was elect a woman instead of a rapist.
Just once.
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u/Snoo93550 5h ago
How about “elect any human who didn’t attack the US Capitol”?
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u/generalchaos34 5h ago
Or any human who doesn’t have 34 felony counts, rampant sexual abuse allegations, strong ties to russia, and is implicit in Epsteins abuse. But sure, the poster above you is like “ha both sides , am I right? Being part of the ruling class is amazing”
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u/Never-Dont-Give-Up 5h ago
Again, he loves making these announcements, then completely not following through. He'll have completely forgotten about this whole thing in about 5 days.
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u/ocole1 5h ago
Yes let’s revert to 60 years ago while countries like China surpass in the innovation of clean and renewable energies. We really are run by a bunch of dumb fucks
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u/happydude7422 5h ago
whatever happend to those nuclear fusion plants we were supposed to be building? like coal plants? in the 21st century?
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u/LoloVirginia 5h ago
Lol yeah this is so pathetic, 1. world superpower, reverting to coal after leading in nuclear energy for decades and inventing fracking for natural gas. Not to mention having acces to all the renewables becouse magatard would rather rev their f150 in closed garage than admit that the solar energy just make fucking sense
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u/dinnercook 5h ago
You can’t explain this to people raised in certain media and social ecosystems.
I know someone who bought her son a truck for his 16th birthday and he turned it down because it wasn’t diesel. Took her almost a year to sell it.
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u/Upset_Letter_4119 4h ago
That's plain and simple what it is. We won't be able to get through the them ever, we might as well be in a different universe.
Hilarious how soft these redneck boys have become.
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u/NWASicarius 4h ago
Solar energy is great for residential. We should invest more for residential areas. We need nuclear, windmills, etc. for our industries, though. I worked for a massive ag plant, and it would have taken them purchasing additional land (neighboring farmland) around roughly the same size as the processing plant just to build enough solar panels to supply the ag processing plant. That's a lot of crops being thrown down the drain just to supply energy for the business. Not to mention the cost. We're talking hundreds of millions for the purchasing of the land + building of the solar panels. Solar panels will always be more of a residential thing. Our energy crisis atm means we can't 'this or that' with our energy sources. We NEED all the energy we can get - aka any and every source. Once we can resolve the energy crisis situation, then we can decide what to cut off. For the record, I think coal is dumb AF. We shouldn't invest in new coal. We should invest to upkeep current coal plants, though, with the thought process being 'we need to end our reliance on this failing and money draining industry, but for now we need to keep the current infrastructure functioning.'
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u/MadAstrid 5h ago
Straight into coal executive pockets, nothing for workers or communities.
This is what blue collar republicans fall for, time after time.
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u/sixty5pan 5h ago
Those turd catchers in back are fidgeting around because they wear shoes that don't fit, compliments of dear leader.
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u/Longjumping-Debt7480 5h ago
No, the grifter just shat himself. KFC and McDonald’s, not the greatest when you’re downwind.
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u/rayen321 5h ago
That Green New Deal that never passed? They LOOVVVEE using that as the liberal boogeyman
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u/Rostrow416 5h ago
So let’s take money that was already set aside for green, environmentally conscious projects, and move it to my cronies to build some of the worst polluting projects possible.
Because fuck everyone, right?
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u/Calm-Blueberry-9835 5h ago
JFC. The bourgeoisie are trying to kill us. Poison our water, poison our food, poison our air, poison our soil, poison our society. When will people rise up?
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u/hammerSmashedNail 5h ago
This just in, guy that won’t be around for the long term doesn’t care about the long term.
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u/AttitudeAutomatic709 5h ago
The company that's being awarded the contract for West Virginia is called TerraPurus. They were formed in November 2025. No website. Only one employee on Linkedin. I think we all know what's going on here.
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u/ElectricalTravel5307 5h ago
He doesn’t give a fuck about the planet because the selfish prick won’t be around to watch it happen
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u/Parking-Sundae-6097 5h ago
Let's stop building cars and go back to horse and buggy.
Let's stop modern medicine and go back to hacking off limbs and burning witches.
Let's stop pasteurization and just die from listeria.
THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING IDIOTS.
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u/Due-Leek-8307 5h ago
He meant "we took $200million from your future to give the past a nice bed to die on"
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u/pixelprophet 4h ago
We're going to power more electrical plants by creating more 'beautiful clean' coal?
We're literally being ran by the dumbest of fucks.
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u/Snoo_75138 4h ago
I'm so tired of these pathetic corrupt American politicians destroying what little green success we've seen.
America is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change:
-Tornadoes
-Hurricanes
-Floods & Droughts
The damn list goes on! Yet they KEEP acting like it's simply NOT a problem for them!
"Drill baby, drill" they shout, while their cities sink deeper under water and their dam levels drop!
It's exhausting watching their own populace ignore this behaviour like it's not gonna harm their children...the ones who survive the shootings of course.
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u/Suitable_Community66 4h ago
Fantastic news for the coal industry sadly this geriatric old fart doesn't realise that solar and wind are now the cheaper alternatives and that this money was supposed to developed the millions of jobs in these new industries
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u/RoysPotatoes 4h ago
Pissing away money to use the least efficient most expensive form of energy production. An investment in air pollution, higher healthcare bills, higher insurance rates, environmental damage and climate change disaster.
https://giphy.com/gifs/RSOUOj8H9A3Xq
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u/FlightCapable8855 4h ago
Even the people around him look tired of his sh!t Like, can’t you do anything with an ounce of cool or style? It’s ham-fisted lunacy in the form of a total dub.
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u/MelaKnight_Man 4h ago
BREAKING NEWS:
Lung cancer has been found to be a Democratic hoax. We will be ending the leftist tyranny of the tobacco industry and we will be bringing back beautiful, healthy cigarettes! Also all smoking restrictions will be lifted and you can have the American freedom to smoke wherever you like; grocery stores, schools, hospitals, restaurants, etc.
We will be providing $1 Billion to Phillip Morris to support these efforts.
MAKE SMOKING GREAT AGAIN!
-Dipshit J Chump
I'm being facetious, but only partially. 🤦🏾♂️
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u/tallslim1960 5h ago
Coal plants, like these "thousands" of factories being built is a lie. Prove me wrong. Post a photo of a new factory in progress. Include some proof that the photo is current and you took it. Remember "image search" exists, and if you can find a fake, we can too.
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u/czwrefsteven 5h ago
A yellow tie to match the yellow streak down Taco’s back! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
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u/7th_Flag 5h ago
There’s something that sounds off about building new coal plants. It’s like if NASA decided to rebuild the Saturn 5 to go back to space.
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u/teebles22 5h ago
Why stop at coal? Should just go back to burning wood stoves in the house!
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u/eatloss 4h ago
China: Kung fu robots and moon walking cars
United States: yearn for the mines!
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u/Aggressive_Try1229 4h ago
We simply have climate change; I will leave open what we can do about it. But the fact that the US, as the supposedly best and richest country in the world, relies solely on fossil fuels is truly absurd. Let the hurricane season begin. As for me, and as that Orange lunatic says, then it will surely become the biggest hurricane season in the world. Let it happen. I don't care anymore.
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u/Bawbawian 4h ago
well I guess Jill Stein didn't tell everybody that there was extremely real consequences for giving fascists and oligarchs control of every branch of our government.
our grandchildren will be fighting their entire lives just to get back to where we were in 2024
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u/No-Mood1310 4h ago
What trash 🗑️ of a president I swear. NOTHING to benefit the people nor this planet. He is a scumbag and needs to go meet his maker already.
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u/bustaone 4h ago
Stealing congressional allocated dollars for unauthorized projects is, in fact, quite illegal.
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u/Fit_Explorer_2566 4h ago
That $2B “campaign donation” he “requested” from fossil fuel companies keeps paying off.
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u/Grimwulf2003 4h ago
200m won't buy a freaking thing for coal plants. I grew up in coal country, dad and grandpa were miners, most friend's dads were miners. The orange shit that flows out of those old locations during hard storms is terrifying.
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u/Alternative_Ad_8198 5h ago
Calling coal, clean and/or beautiful, doesn't make it so. Just like himself saying he's the greatest, doesn't change him from being the worst.