Trump proposes 10 futuristic 'Freedom Cities,' featuring Jetsons-like flying cars

Former President Donald Trump connected Friday shared the wide strokes of an ambitious program to physique 10 caller "Freedom Cities" and bushed China successful the improvement of flying cars.

Lamenting that the U.S. has "lost its boldness," the apical Republican 2024 statesmanlike campaigner called for a nationalist contention to plan the cities arsenic a mode to spur a "quantum leap successful the American Standard of Living."

Another plank of Trump's plan, elaborate successful a less-than-four-minute video shared by his campaign, is for the national authorities to boost concern successful flying idiosyncratic vehicles.

"I privation to guarantee that America, not China, leads this gyration successful aerial mobility," Trump said successful the video.

The policy-light program sketched a imaginativeness of America's aboriginal that was successful immoderate ways reminiscent of "The Jetsons," the classical cartoon depicting a high-tech utopian nine wherever commuters traveled to enactment by flying car.

Efforts to physique electrical vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, oregon eVTOLs, are already well underway — though flying taxis and aerial highways aren't expected anytime soon, with automakers inactive moving retired self-driving exertion for land-locked cars.

In a property release, Trump's run asserted that 10 cities the size of Washington, D.C., could beryllium built utilizing little than 1 tenth of 1 percent of the hundreds of cardinal of acres of "empty" government-owned land. That onshore would not beryllium portion of U.S. nationalist parks, the run noted.

While Trump puts home- and car-ownership astatine the halfway of his imaginativeness for an perfect American future, municipality planners and politicians person increasingly championed municipality infrastructure concepts that summation density and trim reliance connected cars.

Trump's video besides teased a "major initiative" to little the outgo of living, with a absorption connected lowering the costs of buying a car gathering a single-family home.

And helium called for Congress to o.k. "baby bonuses" for young parents, a connection that appears akin to Democrat-proposed "baby bonds" authorities that would springiness each kid $1,000 a month.

The "Quantum Leap" program follows different argumentation announcements from Trump's 2024 campaign. Days earlier, Trump unveiled a protectionist commercialized docket featuring "universal" tariffs aimed to promote home production.

The latest program came 1 time earlier Trump is acceptable to code the Conservative Political Action Conference.