They misunderstood, trump said he loved minors, not miners.

Look I hate to see industries churn through workers lives like disposable commodities but:

1. You chuckle fucks voted for this.

2. Perhaps your painful deaths etched into your loved one's memories will cement shit like this from happening again (at least until living memory of you fades, as is inevitable with the human condition).

3. Even if it doesn't, with you lot dying for nothing including your bosses withholding any death in service pay from your families at least we can call it karmatically even.

Lots of news in the "no shit" category these days

Coal mining has become much more automated. It now requires highly skilled engineers and equipment operators and does not need the massive man power as it once did.

Their jobs are never coming back and the ones that do are not good matches because they don't have the proper skills.

They were lied to then betrayed. We should not blame them. We should blame the leaders who lie to our working class. The ones who promise impossible things and deliver garbage.

Yeah, they have. Why do you think we've been trying to get people out of the mines in the first place? The only people who still want coal mines are evil or ignorant. If you're not evil, you probably have black lung.

Probably voted for trump.