Meet George Jetson

Trump wants to hold a contest to create futuristic “Freedom Cities” on federal land.

His policy proposal, shared with Politico, includes investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles, "baby bonuses" for would-be parents and more. https://t.co/Hu17JFiX27

— POLITICO (@politico) March 3, 2023

I'm still trying to puzzle this out.

Forget the "flying cars" (to which all the aging Boomers are supposed to say "Finally!"?).  I guess the "freedom" in the city will be to dodge the things when the inevitable collisions bring them down on the heads of the people on the streets below.  I mean, just imagine the air traffic control problems.*

Anyway....

Forget the "baby bonuses," too (what, children are just an economic decision?  To him, maybe.  Just how gross is this guy?)

He wants to do this on "federal land."

Granted, I'm no expert, but the "federal land" large enough to do this doesn't mean the footprint of a U.S. Courthouse or a Post Office.  He's talking about land the size of military bases or national parks.  Really big military bases or national parks.

Many of the former are already in urban areas, or near enough for dammit.  Many of the latter are parks because we are preserving those areas, or they're rather, shall we say, remote from business and industry and even exurbs.

Just how stupid is this guy?  Who the fuck is gonna move to these "planned cities" (because that's what they are)?  Google tells me "Celebration, Florida," the city planned and started by Disney, is up to 9,923 (well, in 2019).  And it's all privately owned now (as opposed to owned by Disney).  No flying cars, though; and no bonuses for making babies.  Been around since 1996, but still not transforming America.  Maybe it needs the flying cars to do that.  As for the babies, he really wants people to get on with making babies.  To get back at China, or something:

 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. 

Despite the best attempts by Politico to not treat this as utter shite and the insanity of a drooling old man who hasn't a clue, Trump's own people think like Trump:

Trump campaign advisers acknowledge the new set of plans are out of the ordinary. But they note he’s made other eye-popping proposals before — like purchasing Greenland from Denmark. They offered analogies to Abraham Lincoln’s campaign for the transcontinental railroad, Teddy Roosevelt’s vision for a national park service, and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System.

Except Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower all made sense.  This idea is more on the order of buying Greenland.  Once you get it, what do you do with it?

One last dig at Politico before we go, who wants you to know, in their penultimate paragraph, that:

Earlier this week, Trump introduced his 2024 trade policy that would “tax China to build up America” and create a system that “rewards domestic production and taxes foreign companies and those who export American jobs.”

Yeah.  That "idea" was to impose tariffs, which Trump still imagines are levied against the exporting country and paid by them.  He has no grasp of economics, or trade, at all.  None.  Zero.  A fifth-grader in a social studies class would be expected to know better.  And a journalistic outlet should, too.

But, as I say, there is no definition, nor regulation, or journalism as journalism.  Any damned fools can claim the title, and wrap themselves in the imagined mantle of 1st Amendment sanctity.  More of that "secularization," I guess, huh?

*You won't believe his explanation for this element of his "plan":

Trump’s call for investments in vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles, which he says could transform transportation and connect rural and urban America, is part of a “major initiative” focused on lowering the cost of a new car and creating new transportation methods. 

I have no idea if (or how) VTOL aircraft will lower the cost of a new car, or provide new transportation methods.  But it's clear he takes the term "flyover country" literally.