‘Wildly untimely?’ Oh, please – Latest News
Oh, please.
That’s our two-word reply to Gavin Newsom after his own two-word dismissal of a California Post reporter’s query about his presidential ambitions.
“It’s wildly premature,” the guv mentioned on Thursday when requested if he’s working for the White House.
That’s disingenuous, to put it mildly.
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Newsom would do properly to spend much less time scheming to be president –– after which denying it –– and more time confronting crises within the state he’s meant to manipulate.
After all, if it’s untimely for Newsom to debate measuring curtains for the Oval Office, then:
Is it untimely for the California governor to parade round Europe –– twice in three weeks –– to scoff at Donald Trump and pose as president-in-waiting?
Is it untimely to tour the nation to hawk a memoir with the Obama-eque title, “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery”?
Is it untimely to go to key early Democratic main states on mentioned e book tour?
Is it untimely to fabricate headlines –– and model himself as resister-in-chief –– by trolling the president on social media?
We’ve seen the Gavin Newsom show for months: He gallivants hither and yon, conveniently boosting his presidential profile whereas shirking his duties at home and enjoying coy about his future.
The recreation speaks to the guv’s report of inauthenticity –– and certainly, his near-perpetual political theater.
That consists of his grandiose guarantees on points from homebuilding to homeless reduction and his penchant for telling an viewers what it needs to listen to (as on his self-promoting podcast in March 2025 when he referred to as males competing in ladies’s sports activities “profoundly unjust”).
And who can overlook Newsom’s notorious January 2025 second within the Palisades, when he fibbed to a fire sufferer about a phone-call-in-progress with then-President Biden?
Newsom’s recreation additionally speaks to his small-target tactic.
He is aware of: By downplaying his ambitions, he shrinks (for now) as a goal for would-be rivals, Democrat or Republican.
What he thinks is intelligent is simply clear, drained, and disrespectful to Californians.
State residents are nonetheless ready for the guv to confront a long listing of crises right here, together with: persistent high charges of homelessness; a staggering lack of affordability; cussed housing, water, power and road-capacity shortages; abysmal public schooling outcomes; overtaxation — together with an absurd proposed billionaire tax; woeful underperformance by state authorities; rampant fraud; widespread crime; union and different special-interest seize of Sacramento; and more.
But no less than Golden Staters can examine Newom’s childhood in San Francisco when the memoir drops on Feb. 24.
Also not untimely: calling the governor out on his video games.
