CALIFORNIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump loves bashing California—its ]ridiculous’ sanctuary cities, its ‘gross mismanagement’ of its forests, even the ‘disgusting’ streets of San Francisco. He also enjoys slagging California liberals, like House Intelligence Committee Chair ‘Liddle’ Adam Schiff, House Financial Services Committee Chair ‘Low IQ’ Maxine Waters, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who ‘has behaved so irrationally & gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat.’ On Wednesday [2-20-19] , after Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom decided to scale back the state’s troubled high-speed rail project, the president gleefully mocked it as a green fiasco: ‘Send the Federal Government back the Billions of Dollars WASTED!’ Now that progressive Democrats are pushing for a California-style Green New Deal to fight climate change, and progressive California Senator Kamala Harris has become a front-runner for the Democratic nomination to challenge Trump, the president’s allies have begun framing 2020 as a last stand against the hippie-lefty Californication of America.”
–Michael Grunwald, “Trump’s War on California,” Politico, February 21, 2019