President Donald Trump was given yet one more award on Wednesday ― and as soon as once more, it was an honor by no means bestowed earlier than and maybe by no means to be issued once more.
The Washington Coal Club awarded the president a trophy declaring him the “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal” at a White House ceremony.
Trump has been working to make it simpler to extend coal manufacturing since his first administration, typically utilizing the phrase “clean coal” to explain it, though critics say the very idea is a fiction.
The president on Wednesday introduced funding for coal crops in 5 states and ordered the Defense Department to purchase energy from coal crops, based on CNBC.
There, he was additionally given the brand new statuette honoring his efforts on behalf of the business:
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Since returning to the White House final yr, Trump has racked up awards, medals and honors of various ranges of distinction.
He’s set to obtain two from Israel: the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor and the Israel Prize. In addition, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised Trump that he nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is an award the president has publicly obsessed over and brazenly sulked about not receiving.
He did ultimately get one, though it was a secondhand honor: Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado, who gained final yr, gave Trump her medal when she visited the White House final month.
Trump was given the primary ― and solely ― FIFA Peace Prize by the governing physique for soccer final yr, an award that appeared to have been created only for the president.
Trump was given one other uncommon award simply earlier than successful the 2024 presidential election: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.), who owns a number of McDonald’s franchises, awarded him the “McDonald’s French Fry Certification Pin.”
He’s been given an assortment of different items, too, together with a Rolex desk clock and a $130,000 gold bar from a Swiss delegation hoping to get him to scale back tariffs.
It labored, though the transfer is now going through an ethics investigation in Switzerland.
Trump has additionally been given, typically with nice ceremony, an assortment of trinkets from CEOs comparable to Apple’s Tim Cook, who gave the president a bit of “unique” glass on a gold base.
Given that background, social media customers mocked the president for yet one more in a protracted line of participation trophies:
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