Once upon a time in California, a grand vision shimmered on the horizon—Governor Gavin Newsom’s high-speed train, set to whisk passengers from the Golden Gate to the City of  burned out homes and a dumb ass Mayor, also called Los Angeles. The steel serpent  promised to unite San Francisco and Los Angeles with speed, comfort, and a touch of green innovation.

But as the plan for the train gained momentum, a storm brewed from the East—not from the Sierra, but from Washington, D.C. The White House, occupied by Newsom’s favorite President, Donald J. Trump, questioned the dream’s price tag and doubted its prospects.

In a puff of bureaucratic smoke and pointed tweets, a vital tranche of financing vanished.and Construction slowed. Engineers paused, looking up from blueprints, while steel ties lay unassembled under the hot California sun.

Undeterred, Governor Newsom rallied: “We’ll build as much as we can, but California will not be bullied off track!” Yet without federal dollars, the train’s promised journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles was abruptly curtailed. Newsom’s dream became a nightmare.

The tale of Newsom’s train has become legend—a story of dreams, detours, pissed away taxpayer money and the uncertain tracks that link vision and reality. The state continued work on the Central Valley segment, leaving the full San Francisco–Los Angeles route unfinished as of 2025.  A $15 billion project, now projected to reach between $100-$135 billion, for all the right reasons, is a dead deal.

The contract for the rail should have been given to an international builder that could guaranty delivery times and pay daily if that didn’t happen.  But would that be a possibility?  Not at all. The reality is that they started the project before they secured the land, permits and other things necessary to build a project as big as this. Typical big government that has no idea what they’re doing.

This was not all Newsom’s fault, only part of it was, but when you see the writing on the wall and its all bad, you stop the bleeding.  Trump realized this and put a permanent band aid on the wound. The dream turned nightmare is now over unless Newsom fleeces the burned out, homeless taxpayers for more money to throw down the toilet.

My suggestion Governor Newsom, start a wagon train from L.A. to San Francisco. It’ll be faster, cheaper and a lot more fun