Former President Donald Trump had a special message for the men in the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday when he detailed his plans to have ‘baby bonuses’ for couples – part of his pitch to take the White House again.
‘We will support baby boomers and we will support baby bonuses for a new baby boom, how does that sound? I want a baby boom,’ Trump said, chuckling, ‘You men are so lucky out there. You are so lucky, men.’
On Friday, Trump announced he wanted to build up to 10 so-called ‘freedom cities,’ with flying cars and lots of babies – launching a ‘quantum leap’ agenda as part of his 2024 presidential run.
‘We will hold a competition to build new freedom cities on the frontier to give countless Americans a new shot at home ownership and the American dream,’ Trump said during Saturday’s address, which ran nearly an hour and 45 minutes.
‘We will rename our schools and boulevards not after communists but after great, American patriots,’ he continued. ‘We will get rid of bad and ugly buildings and return to the magnificent classical style of western civilization.’
Former President Donald Trump had a special message for the men in the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday when he detailed his plans to have ‘baby bonuses’ for couples – part of his pitch to take the White House again
Trump outlined his plan Saturday to have ‘baby bonuses’ for couples who have kids, as part of his new ‘freedom cities’ pitch, which is part of his 2024 White House bid
In a video posted to Truth Social, the ex-president explained that he’d take a tiny percentage of federally owned land and hold a contest for the best ideas, to then build as many as 10 ‘freedom cities’ from scratch.
In those cities there would be ‘towering monuments to our true American heroes’ and ‘vertical take-off and landing vehicles.’ ‘Just as the United States led the automotive revolution in the last century, I want to ensurue that America, not China, leads this revolution in air mobility,’ Trump said.
Additionally, the cities would be filled with children, with Trump suggesting the federal government during his second term would give out ‘baby bonuses’ to increase procreation.
He’s been a presidential candidate again for three and a half months – though much of his campaign has been backward-looking – as he settles old scores and repeats his previous policy ideas.
The Trump plan for a ‘quantum leap in the American standard of living’ pulls from his roots as a real estate developer, his career before becoming a reality TV star and a politician.
He’s previously pitched futuristic ideas such as a missile shield and championed the creation of Space Force during his time in the White House.
‘Past generations of Americans pursued big dreams and daring projects that once seemed absolutely impossible. They pushed across an unsettled continent and built new cities in the wild frontier. They transformed American life with the interstate highway system – magnificent it was. And they launched a vast network of satellites into orbit, all around the earth,’ Trump said in the video.
‘But today, our country has lost its boldness,’ he said. ‘Under my leadership, we will get it back in a very big way.’
‘Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living,’ he said. ‘That’s what will happen.’
Trump then talked about the vastness of the federally owned land and said he’d use ‘a very, very small portion of that land, just a fraction, one half of one percent – would you believe that’ to build entirely new cities based on the contest winners’ designs.
‘These freedom cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination and will give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact the American dream,’ he said.
Trump added that ‘forgotten communities’ would be turned into hives of industry, as the U.S. closes the door on imports from China.
He pledged to lower the cost of living, especially the cost of buying a car and building a new home. ‘And they will be beautiful homes,’ he said.
‘And I will ask Congress to support baby bonuss for young parents to help launch a new baby boom,’ the ex-president said.
He said he’d ask all the state’s governors to join him in a national ‘modernization and beautification campaign’ which would include ‘getting rid of ugly buildings’ and refurbishing parks and public spaces.
Similarly, at the very end of Trump’s White House tenure, Trump had signed an executive order that called for traditional designs for federal buildings and lambasted modernist architecture.
‘Very importantly I will also make sure these new places are safe,’ he continued. ‘We love and cherish our police, they will do the job the way they have to,’ Trump added, repeating his support for police officers that he expressed during his 2020 campaign, amid a wave of Black Lives Matter protests.
Trump’s call for ‘towering monuments’ in his new freedom cities, echos the executive order he signed just two days before President Joe Biden’s swearing-in that called for a National Garden of American Heroes, which would include statues of 244 historical figures.
The ex-president also pushed during his 2020 run that Confederate monuments should remain, as the Black Lives Matter protests had many city officials around the country reassess whether they should still be on display.
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