> told coal miners and autoworkers to "learn to code" and called them deplorables for voting nativist in 2016.

The actual pitch was to bring educational and alternative energy opportunities to an area that is impoverished and facing harsh economic realities. It's worth pointing out that the people WV did end up electing did not improve the region and did nothing for coal miners' ecnonomic wellbeing, as many of those coal plants shut down anyway and no one of their elected officials did anything to stop it, nor did they provide any economic alternatives to the region:

"coal production has declined 31% since Trump took office [first term], and by some estimates, more than five dozen coal-fired power plants have closed."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/14/donald-tru...

> called them deplorables for voting nativist in 2016.

She called a spade a spade. As mad as they were in 2016 for being called that, they proved her 100% right when they sacked the capitol in a violent insurrection in 2021 waving KKK and Nazi flags. That's deplorable behavior.