President Donald Trump raged against the auto industry Wednesday, as car manufacturers continue to balk at his administration's planned rollback of Obama-era fuel emission standards. The Trump administration has long planned to stop Obama's policy, but California, which receives a waiver to enact its own fuel policies, responded by enacting tougher emission standards of its own. Now, automakers are caught in the middle between the two competing standards—but more are taking California's side, including four of the world's largest automakers. And, predictably, Trump isn't thrilled.

After deriding the “politically correct Automobile Companies” and their “foolish executives” earlier on Twitter Wednesday, Trump returned Wednesday evening to once again whine about his failed policy, this time by invoking automobile pioneer Henry Ford. “The Legendary Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, the Founders of Ford Motor Company and General Motors, are ‘rolling over’ at the weakness of current car company executives willing to spend more money on a car that is not as safe or good, and cost $3,000 more to consumers. Crazy!” Trump tweeted. The president then claimed Ford would be “very disappointed if he saw his modern-day descendants wanting to build a much more expensive car, that is far less safe and doesn’t work as well, because execs don’t want to fight California regulators,” insisting that his administration's plan is “a far better alternative, which is much better for consumers!”

As with many things the president has said, his tweets were filled with a number of totally false claims. The White House's insistence that their curbed fuel standards would be safer—which seems to be based on the logic that fewer people will buy more expensive, fuel-efficient vehicles, making things more dangerous because of the number of older cars on the road—has been debunked by Ohio State University's Center for Automotive Research, as have claims that more fuel-efficient vehicles are less safe. In fact, the Associated Press reported that in private emails, Environmental Protection Agency officials admitted Trump's regulations would cause an additional 17 highway deaths per year.

Similarly, while Trump may hail the rollback as a cost-cutting measure for consumers, a Consumer Reports analysis found that the regulations will instead actually cost consumers $3,300 more per vehicle each year by increasing fuel costs. And though Trump insisted Wednesday that his standards would have “very little impact on the environment,” studies cited by the New York Times found the rollback could be Trump's “most consequential climate-policy rollback yet.” The rollback could release anywhere from an extra 321 million to 1.25 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through 2035, and the added pollution from Trump's regulation in 2035 alone would eclipse the total annual emissions made by smaller countries like Austria, Bangladesh, or Greece. (While his claims about Ford can't be fact-checked, it is also somewhat ironic that the president invoked Ford, a noted anti-Semite, hours after proclaiming himself the “King of Israel.”) Instead of these bogus claims about cost and safety, Trump's decision to push the fuel rollback instead appears to be driven by the oil industry, which has mounted a massive Koch-backed campaign supporting lower emission standards.

Trump's Twitter rant came as the New York Times reported Wednesday about the White House's desperate efforts to get the auto industry on its side. Following a July report that Ford Motor Company, Volkswagen of America, Honda and BMW have signed on with California to follow their standards—which are also followed by 12 other states, plus the District of Columbia—the Trump administration has reportedly “mounted an effort” to ensure other companies won't follow their lead. Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors recently took part in a White House meeting about Trump's standards, and a senior administration official described the four automakers' agreement with California as “an effort to force Americans to buy expensive vehicles that they don’t want or need.” In a sign that Trump's anger is likely driven by his personal grievances with California and their Democratic government, the Times noted that Trump has even considered dropping his plan but still sticking it to California by revoking their authority to set their own standards, a move that would be “a way to retaliate against both California and the four automakers in California’s camp.” (Scrapping the yet-to-be-completed rollback plan could be a good move, considering that the Times reports that after staff departures, the plan's completion is currently being spearheaded by a 29-year-old aide “with limited experience in climate change policy.”)