We’ve got a resurrection story for you today, folks — and no, it’s not Sunday. President Trump just signed an executive order reviving portions of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the same infrastructure project that Joe Biden killed with a pen stroke approximately four seconds after being sworn in back in 2021. The pipeline is back. American energy jobs are back. And somewhere in a wind-turbine-powered co-working space in Brooklyn, a climate activist just threw their oat milk latte at the wall.
You have to admire the symmetry here. Biden killed it with a signature to impress people who think cow farts are an existential threat. Trump brought it back with a signature to impress people who like filling their gas tanks without taking out a second mortgage. One pen stroke for the donors. One pen stroke for the people. The circle of life, DC edition — except Simba is a 1,200-mile steel pipeline and Scar is a guy who can’t find his way off a stage.
Let’s rewind the tape for anyone who forgot what happened. January 20, 2021 — Biden’s very first day in the big chair. Before the inaugural confetti hit the ground, before Jill even got the good china arranged, Joe grabbed a pen and canceled the Keystone XL permit. Just like that. Thousands of union jobs — gone. Billions in economic activity — poof. Canadian oil that would’ve flowed through American pipes to American refineries, processed by American workers? Nah. Biden decided we’d rather buy it from countries that execute people for being gay. Real progressive energy policy right there.
The excuse at the time was climate change. We were told the pipeline would be an environmental catastrophe, a carbon bomb, a planet-killer. The usual hysterics. Never mind that the oil was going to be extracted regardless — it would just be shipped by rail and truck instead, which is demonstrably worse for the environment. Never mind that pipelines are the safest method of transporting crude. Never mind that killing the project did absolutely nothing measurable to global temperatures. The point was never the climate. The point was the gesture. The point was making the green lobby feel important while American workers got kicked to the curb.
And now Trump has undone it with the same tool Biden used to destroy it. An executive order. That’s it. No act of Congress. No years-long legislative battle. Just a president who looked at the situation, saw that Americans want affordable energy and good-paying jobs, and said, “Yeah, let’s do that.”
The executive order revives key portions of the project, signaling to energy companies that Washington is open for business again — real business, not the kind where you slap solar panels on everything and pretend electricity grows on trees. We’re talking about steel in the ground, welders with paychecks, and crude flowing to refineries that keep this country running. The kind of infrastructure that doesn’t need a government subsidy and a prayer to function.
Now, we can already hear the objections forming. The environmental groups are going to sue. They always sue. That’s their entire business model — raise money from guilty rich people, file lawsuits, repeat. They’ll trot out the same doomsday predictions they’ve been recycling since the 1970s when they told us we’d all be living in igloos by now due to global cooling. The legal battles will come, and they’ll be tedious, but the signal from the White House is unmistakable: America is done apologizing for producing energy.
Here’s what the green lobby will never tell you. While they were busy killing pipelines and celebrating, gas prices surged. Home heating costs skyrocketed. Inflation — driven in no small part by energy costs — ate into every family’s budget. Working people paid the price for Biden’s climate theater. The guy who flew a 747 to a climate summit to tell you to drive less — that’s who was running energy policy. And we’re supposed to be surprised it didn’t work?
The Keystone XL revival isn’t just about one pipeline. It’s about a philosophy. It’s the difference between a government that views American energy production as a problem to be managed and one that views it as a strength to be unleashed. Biden looked at American oil workers and saw a political liability. Trump looks at them and sees the backbone of the economy. Same workers. Same pipeline. Completely different worldview.
We should also point out that Canada — our actual ally, our neighbor, the country that shares the longest undefended border on Earth — has been waiting for this. The Keystone XL was always a joint project, a symbol of North American energy cooperation. Biden didn’t just slap American workers; he slapped our closest trading partner in the face on day one. Diplomatic genius, that one.
So here we are. The pipeline Biden murdered is being brought back to life. The jobs Biden killed are being resurrected. The energy independence Biden undermined is being rebuilt. And the green lobby that cheered when it all went down is about to learn the same lesson they keep refusing to learn: you can’t power a country on feelings, solar panels alone won’t cut it when it’s twenty below in Minnesota, and Americans will always — always — choose affordable energy over ideological vanity projects.
Welcome back, Keystone. We missed you.
