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James Woods has 5-word response to Vogue’s Gavin Newsom lovefest

February 4, 2026 | | Print Article

Vogue magazine is being blasted hard for running a pathetically obsequious report on California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Instead of using the opportunity to slam him for his gross policy failures, the magazine decided to lavish him with praise for his looks.

“Let’s get this out of the way: He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address,” the Vogue puff piece begins.

“It must drive Trump nuts. Newsom: lithe, ardent, energetic, a glimmer of optimism in his eye; Kennedy-esque,” the piece later continues. “Add to that his stunning wife and four adorable kids, and the executive strut of a self-made millionaire who has spent the past seven years at the helm of a state big, complex, and rich enough to be a nation of its own.”

Florida Sen. Rick Scott wasn’t impressed.

“Fraud is rampant in California, the state is running huge deficits, and victims of the Palisades fires are still waiting for answers over a year later,” he wrote in a scathing tweet. “I’m sure Californians are feeling much better knowing that their Governor is spending his time convincing @Vogue to tell him he’s pretty.”

Neither was conservative Hollywood actor James Woods.

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In the tweet above, Woods rightly noted that deceased killer Ted Bundy had also been “embarrassingly handsome.”

In fairness, Newsom isn’t a convicted killer. His policies, however, have been killers of innovation and growth.

“Since Newsom became governor of California in 2019, he has presided over the ongoing decline of one of our country’s greatest states,” business analyst Liz Peek noted recently for The Hill. “California is rapidly losing population, losing businesses, and suffering repeated budget crises.”

Why? California “ranks as the second most expensive state in the U.S., thanks to high taxes, suffocating regulations, and damaging progressive policies like the renewable energy mandates embraced by Newsom.”

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Peek also slammed Newsom’s management skills.

“California’s efforts to build a high-speed railroad have become a national joke,” she wrote. “The estimated price tag for the hugely scaled-down project has skyrocketed from its original $33 billion 17 years ago to $135 billion now.”

And she took aim at his mishandling of the Palisades Fire.

“[R]ebuilding has been scant, despite bold promises from the governor,” she noted. “Some 16,000 homes were destroyed; so far, there have only been 4,700 applications filed by those wanting to rebuild, and only 2,000 approved.”

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“That failure prompted President Trump to issue an executive order recently clearing the way for a rare federal takeover, promising to speed up permitting and construction,” she continued.

None of this was broached in Vogue’s puff piece, except for one stunning sentence in which the author of the report, a woman, admitted that she didn’t have enough time to talk to him about anything actually important.

“There were topics I didn’t get to discuss with him—the LA wildfires, contraction and corporate consolidation in Hollywood, homelessness, the coming AI apocalypse, to name a few,” the author admitted.

But she did have time to talk about his looks.

See how the public reacted to the “report” below:

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