Even if coal were made viable again under Trump, which it wasn't..but if it were, it would be for the birds :)?

You have a bad habit of misusing words and phrases and coming off like some kind of retard. Coal hasn't become any less viable - it's been proven to be inefficient and dirty. It's tedious and expensive to extract, it doesn't burn cleanly, and it doesn't provide as much energy as other fossil fuels. In what sense might the coal industry be for the birds? Do you even know what the expression means? In countries where coal is the only available source of energy, people don't have any choice but to use it. And coal can be transported in trucks, on trains, by ship, which natural gas cannot - unless the people transporting it are able to process it for shipping, but that's not cheap or easy, and certainly not safe. This is also why wealthy countries like Canada and Norway are 75% forested while poor countries like Haiti or Pakistan are practically devoid of old growth woodland - locals chop down trees to make charcoal. If you're from a first-world, industrialized, developed, wealthy nation, you shouldn't be getting your power from coal in the first place. That was fine a hundred years ago, but we've come a long way since then.  

The coal country folks who fell for Trump's BS was suckered into a raw deal.  He, and other Republicans before him, sold them a lie that their jobs were disappearing because of evil environmentalists who hated them and wanted to punish them.  But that's not true.  Coal is a dying industry and the primary reasons are market related not regulatory.  The market for coal in the US is overwhelmingly to do with power generation.  But the problem is that natural gas is a whole lot cheaper.  It's also cleaner to burn.  So you've got a superior product at a lower price.  Of course coal is going to lose out.   Coal jobs are suffering as well because of greater mechanization in the industry.  Coal mining is a lot more efficient than it used to be.  I guess that's good for coal companies' shrinking bottom lines, but it's bad for miners because the coal companies don't need as many workers.  And these trends aren't going to reverse themselves basically no matter what Trump, or other politicians, do.  For one thing, power companies have invested a lot of money in converting to natural gas plants.  Even if the price of coal came down a bit they're not going to suddenly switch over to using coal again.  They're locked in to natural gas for the long haul.  Instead of feeding these people a fantasy that coal is going to somehow come back, or even be a viable industry in the future, they should be preparing them for an economic life beyond coal. 

More than half of the coal fired power plants in the US have been converted to natural gas, with more scheduled to be converted.

US coal production has dropped more than 30% in the past 5 years with the trend continuing.

Trump did nothing for the coal miners.

Coal mining isn't what it used to be. Now they just chop off the top of the mountain and extract the coal from above. Here's what it looks like:

Guess what genius, when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow coal still burns.   LOL

Cool, you should tell this to China. They didn't get the memo.

Coal is dead. The workers just need help with transition and the federal government needs to provide that. 

What??  Do you mean that Dementia Donnie did not actually create millions of high paying coal miner jobs??  Noooo!  Tell me that it's not true!