The Trump administration pressured the US Food and Drug Administration to approve fruit-flavoured e-cigarettes as internal polling showed the president's support among young Americans collapsing to its lowest point of his second term.
The Wall Street Journal reported on 5 May 2026 that President Donald Trump rebuked FDA Commissioner Marty Makary over the weekend for failing to move quickly enough on flavoured vaping products, with advisers describing the agency chief as a 'problem for the administration.'
