Trump wants Americans to buy tiny cars. Good luck with that


U.S. President Donald Trump

All it took to melt President Donald Trump’s heart was the sight of a tiny car he wouldn’t set foot in.

While he is ferried around in an armoured Cadillac believed to weigh 10 tonnes and nicknamed “the beast”, Trump expressed delight last Wednesday with Japan’s pint-sized kei cars, deeming them “really cute” and “really beautiful”, in language that was surprisingly effusive and not a little unnerving.

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