California Keeps Making the US Great — Again
The White House needs reminding that the Golden State is where most of the country’s prosperity is derived.
As California Governor Gavin Newsom knows, the state is a giver.
Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty Images North AmericaDuring the first week of November when he said he won “the most epic political victory our country has ever seen,” which proved to be by the smallest popular vote margin of any president since Richard Nixon in 1968, Donald Trump posted this on his Truth Social website:
If he was referring to the leader of the US state with the largest gross domestic product, whose last name has six letters instead of seven, Trump could have reminded all concerned that since he was elected the 45th president in 2016, California rose to No. 5 from No. 7 among the countries with the biggest GDP. And it is only a Nevada-sized economy away from supplanting Germany and Japan as soon as this year as No.3 in the world behind the US and China.