President Trump was awarded the "Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal" trophy during a White House event on his latest fossil fuel drive Wednesday, 2/11/2026. The big picture: The award that Peabody Energy executive Jim Grech gave Trump at the event celebrating Trump's signing of an order directing the Pentagon to procure electricity from coal-fired power plants is the latest in a series of prizes bestowed on the president during his second term. Do you think that this award is meaningless and that Trump is being played?

The coal award is the second inaugural award Trump has received in three months, after the FIFA Peace Prize that "close friend" Gianni Infantino, president of soccer's global governing body, gave him after the commander in chief lost his bid for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Trump has been named the recipient of several other so-called prestigious prizes in recent months including: 1) the Israel Prize in the category of "Unique Contribution to the Jewish People" in "recognition of his extraordinary contribution and its lasting impact on the Jewish people in Israel and around the world, 2) Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor in recognition of his role in the Gaza ceasefire deal, 3) Grand Order of Mugunghwa: last October, Trump became the first U.S. president to be presented with South Korea's highest national order due to his contributions to the Korean peninsula as a "peacemaker", 4) Order of the Nile: Egypt gave Trump its top honor in October for brokering the peace deal between Israel's government and Hamas. Do you think that Trump has personally done anything of merit to actually earn these awards?