… as of today, there'll be a seventh one and more than twice as many that voluntarily said, hey, we're not going to have to close, we need to stay open. Seventeen coal plants were not closed in 2025 because of President Trump sitting at this desk and in this position right here. That saved, that saved 17 gigawatts of electric generating capacity. And the winter storm fern that hit our country in the last week of January this year, hundreds, conservatively hundreds of Americans were, would have lost their lives if those 17 coal plants had closed. (01:24–01:34)
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Asserts that President Trump's actions prevented the closure of 17 coal plants in 2025.
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