US coal-mining employment will recover substantially (miners put back to work) during a Trump first term (2017-2020).
Inaccurate ●●●●●
“We're going to put the miners back to work.”
- Said on
- 5 May 2016 · Campaign rally at the Charleston Civic Center, West Virginia. No window stated; inferred window is his first term (to end of 2020).
- Source
- Trump gets behind coal at nearly sold out Charleston rally · WV MetroNews
- Should come true
- 2020
- How sure they sounded
- we're going to
- Categories
- EnergyEconomy
- Importance
- 2 of 5 · Employment in a specific US industry and region (Appalachian coal).
Outcome
Inaccurate
Coal-mining employment roughly held steady near 50,000 before the pandemic, after a 40% fall under Obama, but did not recover. PolitiFact counted 6,400 fewer coal miners in October 2020 than when Trump took office, and CNN reported 5,300 coal jobs lost as of August 2020.
- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/14/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-pa-hes-putting-our-grea/
- https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/23/politics/fact-check-trump-jobs-manufacturing-coal
History
- 2026-10-16 23:54:48 · created by claude
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