Op-Ed: This Is Newsom’s Biggest Problem – He’s Shallow

With a reed-thin profile, perfectly coiffed hair, and a designer wardrobe, it still doesn’t take much for Gavin Newsom to morph his celebrity facade into a hyper-smug, arrogant, “shallowsome” persona.

Stuck in a loop of his own misinformation, California’s governor can’t help but run the same playbook, insisting that anything Trump says, does, or has accomplished is bad, while all that he personally imagines, supports, or messianically reiterates is gifted from Mount Olympus.

But upon review, his broken-record talking points about his Golden State triumphs and Trump’s failures are more a fantasy script from a grade-B movie than a factual documentary. And the evidence for that claim is overwhelming.

An obvious proof of Newsom’s incompetence is his high-speed rail boondoggle. Described by state legislators as a “textbook example of government failure,” the project, originally planned for 500 miles, was authorized by voters in 2008 at a projected cost of $33