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Trump Receives “Champion Of Beautiful Clean Coal” Trophy As He Declares End To “War” On Industry
Donald Trump receiving Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal trophy at an event with coal miners and American flags.

Trump Receives “Champion Of Beautiful Clean Coal” Trophy As He Declares End To “War” On Industry

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U.S. President Donald Trump has added yet another trophy to his collection of awards made solely for him after being named the “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.” 

“Clean beautiful coal. We love clean beautiful coal, don’t we?” Trump said during an event at the White House on Wednesday. The event celebrated Trump’s order directing the Pentagon to procure electricity from coal-fired power plants.

Highlights
  • President Trump was awarded the 'Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal' at a White House event celebrating coal energy.
  • Trump hailed coal miners, claiming his administration boosted coal production by 4 million tons monthly after decades of decline.
  • The trophy, presented by Peabody Energy CEO, featured a bronze miner and was given before coal executives and advocacy members.

“I’m thrilled to welcome to the White House the men and women who light our cities, and you know, you do things that people don’t even understand, so much, you do so much,” the president said.

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    Donald Trump was awarded the ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’ award

    Donald Trump holding coal industry trophy surrounded by officials and workers wearing hard hats during coal event.

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    He added, “You heat our homes, fuel our factories and turn natural resources into American riches and dreams. Our amazing coal miners.”

    Trump then boasted about how his administration has raised production in the industry by 4 million tons a month after it had fallen for “literally decades.” 

    “I ended the war on coal,” Trump announced. 

    President and CEO of Peabody Energy Jim Grech then went on to award Trump with a physical trophy. The design featured a bronze statue of a coal miner on the top. “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal,” the inscription read.

    More than a dozen coal executives, miners in hard hats, and members of the Washington Coal Club stood in the audience as the award was presented to Trump. The club is a pro-coal advocacy group with financial ties to the coal mining industry, according to The New York Times

    Donald Trump receiving the Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal trophy during a ceremony with coal industry workers present.

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    Image credits: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

    This is the third time in two months that Trump has received an award as an “inaugural recipient” from someone trying to get on his good books. In December, he accepted a newly created “FIFA Peace Prize” during the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. 

    FIFA President Gianni Infantino handed him the prize at the ceremony, after months of Trump demanding he win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. The football association had said the prize was designed to “reward individuals who have taken exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace and by doing so have united people across the world.” 

    Trump announced that he ended the war on coal 

    Donald Trump receiving champion of beautiful clean coal trophy on stage, shaking hands with man in black suit.

    Image credits: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

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    Trump’s outburst over not winning the Peace Prize also led to the actual winner of the award, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, offering him the prize “for the work I have done.” Trump called it “such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.”

    However, the organizers of the Nobel Prize said that the award “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred,” adding that the decision was “final and stands for all time.”

    The award left people on social media in disbelief. “I just can’t stop laughing at this. It has to be the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen,” said one user on Reddit. “He [Trump] has the brain of a toddler lmao,” said another. A third said on X, “This shit is so embarrassing and weird.” 

    “Step aside EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winner). Trump is now the ONLY WINNER of BOTH the FIFA Peace Prize and the winner of the ‘Champion of Beautiful, Clean Coal’ award. CHECKMATE LIBERALS,” commentator David Pakman wrote sarcastically on X. 

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    A second user also commented, “I’ve heard of people who have won an Oscar and an Emmy. But to win the Champion of Clean Coal AND the FIFA Peace Prize? In the same year? Unprecedented!”

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    Avi Gopani is an Amsterdam-based journalist currently covering global current affairs at Bored Panda. She has previously reported for The Copenhagen Post, The European Correspondent, and Analytics India Magazine, covering stories across Europe and Asia. Outside the newsroom, she enjoys reading, traveling, and swimming.

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