Russia firm: Don is our asbestie!

A Russian asbestos company has branded its product with President Trump’s face.

Uralasbest, which operates a mine in the Ural Mountains, has stamped Trump’s image on pallets of asbestos (above) with the words, “Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States,” The Guardian reported on Wednesday.

The company posted a picture of pallets covered by Trump’s likeness on its Facebook page last month with a caption that cheered, “Donald is on our side.”

“He supported the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who stated that his agency would no longer deal with negative effects potentially derived from products containing asbestos. Donald Trump supported a specialist and called asbestos ‘100% safe after application,’ ” the statement said, according to a translation from the Envi- ronmental Working Group.

Pruitt stepped down from the federal regulatory agency last week following a rash of scandals, but not before the EPA decided not to ban “new uses” for asbestos products.

Asbestos, once used in building construction as a fire-retardant and insulation, is classified as a “known carcinogen” and its use is highly regulated in the United States.

The mining company is located in Asbest, which was known as “dying city” because of the high rate of lung cancer and other illnesses associated with asbestos, the newspaper reported. It also reportedly has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is meeting with Trump on July 16 in Helsinki.

In the past, Trump has defended asbestos, saying in 2012 that the World Trade Center towers would not have burned on 9/11 if asbestos hadn’t been removed from them.