{"id":97575,"date":"2026-07-15T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-gov-josh-shapiro-is-totally-overrated-does-not-have-what-it-takes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:42:13","slug":"trump-gov-josh-shapiro-is-totally-overrated-does-not-have-what-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-gov-josh-shapiro-is-totally-overrated-does-not-have-what-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Gov. Josh Shapiro Is Totally Overrated, &#8220;Does Not Have What It Takes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Donald Trump weighs in on Gov. Josh Shapiro&#8217;s (D-PA) political aspirations at a defense and innovation event in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.  &#8220;I&#8217;m telling you, this guy [Josh] Shapiro is totally overrated,&#8221; Trump said. I watched him the other night doing a speech, and he does not have what it takes. Maybe he&#8217;ll win, and he&#8217;s expected to win, but I hear things about Stacey, and I&#8217;m hearing some poll numbers that are very good, but Shapiro is, he doesn&#8217;t have what it takes. Now, people think that&#8217;s a horrible statement to make, but that&#8217;s the way politics is.&#8221;  &#8220;That&#8217;s the way it is. I tell the truth,&#8221; Trump added.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/15\/trump_gov_josh_shapiro_is_overrated_does_not_have_what_it_takes.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump weighs in on Gov. Josh Shapiro&#8217;s (D-PA) political aspirations at a defense and innovation event in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. &#8220;I&#8217;m telling you, this guy [Josh] Shapiro is totally overrated,&#8221; Trump said. I watched him the other night doing a speech, and he does not have what it takes. Maybe he&#8217;ll win, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6813,4573,24599,25130,1346,1239,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}