It has to be preceded by "beautiful, clean coal."
The promise
At a White House coal event, Trump joked that people were no longer allowed to use the word coal without favorable adjectives. He said the fuel needed a public-relations improvement and insisted on describing it as beautiful and clean. The remark accompanied his promotion of coal producers and new measures involving power purchases and support for existing plants. Supporters could read the language as a humorous effort to champion mining jobs and dependable electricity generation. Critics could see the clean label as obscuring the environmental and health costs associated with burning coal. The statement was a rhetorical instruction at an industry event, rather than a legal prohibition on using a particular word.
