President Donald Trump used a breathless caps-heavy blast on Truth Social to announce Friday that he had “approved TINY CARS to be built in America.”
“These cars of the very near future are inexpensive, safe, fuel efficient and, quite simply, AMAZING!!! START BUILDING THEM NOW!” the 79-year-old declared. “ENJOY!!!”
The post followed Trump’s recent fascination with the small, low-horsepower kei cars he encountered during visits to Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia.
Those vehicles dominate narrow city roads in Asia but currently fail to meet federal standards for new cars in the United States—standards Trump now wants to relax as part of a broader rollback of Biden-era fuel-efficiency rules.
“They’re very small, they’re really cute, and I said, ‘How would that do in this country?’” Tru

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