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Bessent: Newsom ‘strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken’

January 21, 2026 at 15:55Z

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RELIABILITY: Mixed

The Hill
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday compared California Gov. Gavin Newsom to fictional movie characters such as “American Psycho” villain Patrick Bateman and Sparkle Beach Ken from “Barbie.” “Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris,” Bessent said…

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