Newsom's 'Crazy Train' to Nowhere!

In a spectacle of cost overruns and broken promises, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s flagship bullet-train project has become the poster child for government waste. Conceived in 2008 with an estimated price tag of $33 billion, the so-called “High-Speed Train to Nowhere” has ballooned to a jaw-dropping $128 billion—and counting—yet still hasn’t carried a single passenger.

The debacle reached a new low when President Donald Trump yanked $4 billion in federal funding, labeling the venture “a colossal money pit.” Newsom responded with legal threats, accusing the administration of illegal interference. But social-media critics have been merciless, with one X user quipping, “Newsom’s train is just a money-pit circus!”

Meanwhile, in California’s Central Valley, residents gaze upon half-built stations and idle tracks, footing the bill for a project that’s still nothing more than a concrete skeleton. Local taxpayers, grappling with real-world challenges like housing shortages and pothole-ridden highways, are left wondering why Sacramento’s priorities are so skewed.

In a joint appearance, Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blasted the train as emblematic of “bureaucratic corruption” and “woke engineering fantasy.” Yet Newsom persists in casting himself the victim, blaming Trump for “abandoning hardworking Californians.”

Far From Woke verdict: Gavin, it’s time to admit defeat. Your $128 billion dream has derailed any claim to fiscal responsibility—and so has your credibility.