Trump calls for vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles, baby bonuses

[dalton99a]

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383

Trump calls for contest to create futuristic ‘Freedom Cities’
The former president also wants to spark a wave of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
By Meridith McGraw
03/03/2023 11:00 AM EST

Modern cities and flying cars might sound like the makings of an episode of the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons, where a fictionalized family flew around in Orbit City.

For former President Donald Trump, however, it’s the foundation of a new set of futuristic policy proposals.

In a video set to be released on Friday, Trump will call for a “quantum leap” in the American standard of living.

Trump’s plan, shared in advance with POLITICO, calls for holding a contest to design and create up to ten new “Freedom Cities,” built from the ground up on federal land. It proposes an investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles; the creation of “hives of industry” sparked by cutting off imports from China; and a population surge sparked by “baby bonuses” to encourage would-be-parents to get on with procreation. It is all, his team says, part of a larger nationwide beautification campaign meant to inspire forward-looking visions of America’s future.

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[Diamond_Dog]

1. I think even a third grader would laugh at those ideas.

[Duncanpup]

4. I'm laughing and third grade for me was long time ago Diamond dog.

[Abnredleg]

6. eVTOL aircraft are a thing

it’s a large industry with several aircraft getting close to certification and the FAA working on air management.

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/the-next-normal/air-taxis

[Caliman73]

8. Except, under Conservative government...

The regulations and safety requirements will be gutted, there will be little interest in standards, and it will be a nightmare.

Trump and his people are completely stupid and they are just throwing feces at the wall to see if it will stick.

Instead of building cities from "the ground up" they should invest in making the cities we already have, better places to live by providing the residents with money, jobs, and chances at community development.

Trump's ideas are about "purification". How much do you want to bet that the selection criteria for these "cities of the future" will be restricted to "real Americans"?

[Abnredleg]

11. I highly doubt the regulations will be cut

Given we’re talking about air taxis flying in urban areas. Industry will insist on tight regulation or the public won’t fly on them, thus destroying the industry.

I completely agree with your comments on investing in our cities.

[dweller]

2. On federal land ...

Pisswig is so insane



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[BootinUp]

3. he's trying to lure a Muskrat. nt

[hlthe2b]

5. I guess it is yet another one of his...

INFRASTRUCTURE WEEKS!

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. So he wants to cut down lots of trees to prevent forest fires?

There won't be any forest floors left to rake. The Freedom Cities sound like something out of The Truman Show.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. Who's going to build these "Freedom Cities"?

Immigrants? LOL.

[Samrob]

10. Will the flying cars be pilotless in competition with Teslas? Or will Musk produce flying Teslas? nt

[Volaris]

12. It's a real estate development. From a real estate developer.

President Not Predictable, he sure does have the bestest brain, dunnithe?!

I bet the Freedom Cities will even get to have Freedom Restaurants, and they'll even sell Freedom Fries and Freedom Hamberders on Sundays in honor of Freedom Jeezus!

[Diamond_Dog]

13. Too bad health care and education don't concern him at all.

[jcgoldie]

14. This would go about as far as his fucking wall.

[Trenzalore]

15. Flying cars were always a bad idea

Air traffic control is a nightmare

[EarlG]

16. Just a reminder of what happened to his border wall...

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/trump-wall-border-flood-damage-b1907274.html

[Aristus]

17. For a guy who went bankrupt running a casino, my expectation for his success

is pretty low.

[PatSeg]

18. Ha, ha, ha!

My god, he is really desperate and totally delusional.

[Liberal In Texas]

19. This going to get realized with the HEALTH CARE PLAN?

He'll have all this ready to go in 2 weeks.

[hatrack]

20. Great, so he's reading issues of Boys Life from 1958

Very Space Age!!!

[Celerity]

21. April 1958

[Paladin]

22. This would be pathetic, if trump weren't involved.

Jetson cities? Up-and-down jerkoff transportation? Do those "baby bonuses" go to anybody besides white people?

DeSantis and his people must be giddy with their good fortune.

[Kennah]

23. A gallows takes off vertically

[doc03]

24. And China will pay for it nt

[LakeArenal]

25. We have that already.

We call them the suburbs. (Except for the Govt land part. Which after development Republicans would privatize to billionaires).