{"id":65248,"date":"2026-02-03T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/its-sick-trump-administration-uses-mascot-called-coalie-to-push-dirtiest-fossil-fuel\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:08:38","slug":"its-sick-trump-administration-uses-mascot-called-coalie-to-push-dirtiest-fossil-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/its-sick-trump-administration-uses-mascot-called-coalie-to-push-dirtiest-fossil-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s sick\u2019: Trump administration uses mascot called \u2018Coalie\u2019 to push dirtiest fossil fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoon lump of coal with giant eyes was spotlighted by US interior secretary in X post saying: \u2018Mine, Baby, Mine!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s administration has turned to an unusual weapon in its attempt to resurrect coal mining \u2013 a cartoon lump of coal, complete with giant eyes and yellow mining garb, called \u2018Coalie.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The administration\u2019s new mascot, kitted out with a helmet, boots and gloves, was introduced in a seemingly artificial intelligence-generated picture posted online by Doug Burgum, Trump\u2019s interior secretary. \u201cMine, Baby, Mine!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecretaryBurgum\/status\/2014382110828536183\">Burgum wrote on X<\/a>, adding that Coalie will act as a \u201cspokesperson\u201d for Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerican Energy Dominance Agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/03\/trump-administration-coalie-mascot-fossil-fuels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoon lump of coal with giant eyes was spotlighted by US interior secretary in X post saying: \u2018Mine, Baby, Mine!\u2019 Donald Trump\u2019s administration has turned to an unusual weapon in its attempt to resurrect coal mining \u2013 a cartoon lump of coal, complete with giant eyes and yellow mining garb, called \u2018Coalie.\u2019 The administration\u2019s new &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s sick\u2019: Trump administration uses mascot called \u2018Coalie\u2019 to push dirtiest fossil fuel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/its-sick-trump-administration-uses-mascot-called-coalie-to-push-dirtiest-fossil-fuel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s sick\u2019: Trump administration uses mascot called \u2018Coalie\u2019 to push dirtiest fossil fuel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}