President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’d welcome California Gov. Gavin Newsom launching a presidential bid — while ramping up his taunts of the governor’s handling of the state’s controversial high-speed rail project and the Los Angeles wildfires.
Trump told reporters after a White House meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that Newsom’s support for the decades-old rail project, which is eventually supposed to connect LA to the San Francisco Bay Area but has suffered from ballooning costs, makes him unelectable.
“I would love him to run for president,” he said. “I’d love to see that, but I don’t think he’s going to be running because that one project alone — well, that, and the fires and a lot of other things — pretty much put him out of the race.”
Trump’s remarks come days after he announced a push to reopen Alcatraz as a prison and just hours after Newsom called on Trump to partner with him to save Hollywood and the film industry across the United States.
