Trump’s “energy independence” concept doesn’t even make sense — he favors one domestic energy source over another https://t.co/EVRjdA4yEv pic.twitter.com/P10CWl8r8x

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) March 28, 2017

But bragging about coal production is virtue signaling to rural WWC voters who equate coal with old fashioned American work ethics.