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California Collapse: $37 Billion Gone, Trains To Nowhere, and Somehow It’s Still Trump’s Fault | Drew Allen

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

California is a state that God clearly favored. It has towering mountains, endless ocean coastlines, fertile valleys that feed half the country, tech trillions pouring out of Silicon Valley, Hollywood glamor that still captivates the world, and some of the richest farmland anywhere on earth. This place could literally print money if it wanted to. Instead, it has become the world’s most expensive homeless encampment that increasingly resembles a third world country with better Instagram filters. In California, local officials poured $37 billion into the largest open-air drug market in America, built the most expensive train set that never left the toy store, turned the fifth-largest economy in the world into a foreign oil–dependent, price-gouged, blackout-prone laughingstock, and lit the state on fire, quite literally. Yet, if you only listened to Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Sacramento Democrats over the past decade, you’d believe it’s all Donald Trump’s fault, argues Drew Allen on this special video commentary.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Now, are all the traitors present? Let's get started, shall we? From rags to riches. I'm so sick of this.

0:07.0

Working like a dog and being treated worse. Yorkshire to New York. Poor climbers, you and me.

0:12.4

A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make this an occasion to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4, stream now.

0:19.8

Let me paint you a picture of modern California.

0:23.4

This is a state that God clearly favored.

0:25.6

It has towering mountains, endless ocean coastlines, fertile valleys that feed half the country,

0:31.1

tech trillions pouring out of Silicon Valley, Hollywood glamour that still captivates the world,

0:36.1

and some of the richest farmland anywhere on Earth.

0:38.3

This place could literally print money if it wanted to.

0:41.3

Instead, it has become the world's most expensive homeless encampment.

0:44.3

Streets in major cities now look like permanent open-air drug markets.

0:48.3

Budgets bleed red year after year, even when the broader economy is supposedly booming.

0:52.3

And all of this is happening in the fifth largest economy on the planet. And it increasingly resembles a third world country

0:58.2

with better Instagram filters. And the people running this once golden paradise, they're too

1:02.6

busy screaming about Donald Trump to notice that their own state is on fire, literally. So let's do

1:06.9

something Sacramento never does. Democrats certainly don't ever do and engage in. Let's

1:10.8

actually look at the disasters they've created. And after each one, ask the only question that

1:14.8

matters. What did Donald Trump have to do with that?

1:35.8

Hey, everyone, I'm Drew Thomas Allen, the millennial minister of truth with the Daily Signal.

1:40.4

Let me paint you a picture of modern California, okay?

1:43.3

This is a state that God clearly favored.

1:47.3

It has towering mountains, endless ocean coastlines,

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