Working-Class Whites Watch: Day 89

Once again, The Stain demonstrates that the working-class whites who voted for him were sold a bill of goods:

Unless Congress intervenes by late April, government-funded health benefits will abruptly lapse for more than 20,000 retired miners, concentrated in Trump states that include Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.  Many of the miners have serious health problems arising from their years in the mines.

In mining areas like Uniontown, Pa., and surrounding Fayette and Greene Counties, which Mr. Trump carried 2 to 1, it is an upsetting and potentially costly prospect.  "It's just a terrible, terrible feeling," said one of the retirees, David VanSickle, who spent four decades at work in the mine.  "I think about it 25 times a day."

The president has offered no public comment on the issue, even as he has rolled back regulations on mine operators, an omission that has not escaped the notice of Mr. VanSickle and other retired miners.

Stunning, just stunning.  I mean, the guy swindled thousands of people with a fake university, set up a sham charitable foundation to line his pockets, and lies more than any politician in U.S. history.  And his sole qualification for office was the fact that he's a rich guy.

Who could have predicted that his promises to look out for the interests of the miners would be empty, and that he would instead enact policies which favor the mine operators at the cost of the workers?