Gavin Newsom says Trump is not 'all there' mentally and SOBS while accusing the president of making his teen daughter cry during LA riots
Newsom painted himself and his family as a victim of Trump's aggressive posture toward California, revealing that the president made his teenage daughter cry.
'I have a 15-year-old who quite literally came home from school crying because she was told on her last day of school — God as my witness — because she was told her daddy was getting arrested,' Newsom revealed on The Daily podcast hosted by the New York Times.
Newsom grew emotional as he spoke about the incident, his already hoarse voice cracking.
He was referring to a comment that Trump made to reporters after he was asked if the governor should be arrested by his immigration czar Tom Homan.
'I would do it if I were Tom. I think it's great. Gavin likes the publicity but I think it would be a great thing,' Trump said, when he returned to the White House from Camp David on Monday.
Newsom followed up by defying the president, daring him to follow through on his promise.
'I told the President, get it over with. Arrest me,' he said in an interview.
Newsom also questioned Trump's mental state in a recent interview after speaking with him on the phone.
'He's lost it. He's lost a step. I saw him trip on the steps today. He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago, and he's incapable of even a train of thought,' Newsom, a potential 2028 presidential contender, told FOXLA in an interview.
The White House mocked Newsom's newfound concern about the president's health.
'[R]ich, coming from Gavin Newsom, who in this past election tried to gaslight and lied to the American public about Joe Biden's decline,' White House communications director Steven Cheung told Axios on Thursday.
The California governor also lamented that the president started calling him by the nickname 'Newscum.'
'Yeah, it's the president of United States calling someone scum, Newscum, which is, for what it's worth, what I think a seventh grader used to call me on Baltimore Street in Corte Madera, California,' he said.
Newsom blamed the president for the violent riots in Los Angeles as protestors burned cars and waved Mexican flags.
The LA protests descended into chaos as people continued to fight against ICE in California.
'These are images that Donald Trump created … he wants to divide us, he wants to attack the rule of law, he wants to attack Democracy,' Newsom said to FOXLA.
The California governor continues to position politically against the president, insisting Trump went to far by calling the National Guard and federal troops to help quell the riots.
'He's not for peacemaking, he's here for war, he wants a civil war on the streets of America,' Newsom said.
He also mocked Trump's military parade scheduled on Saturday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army.
'He's going to be out there in his little birthday suit on Saturday, and he's going to do his dictator Kim Jong Un parade and try to one-up Putin so Putin feels threatened,' Newsom said. 'Weakness, that's all that is, masquerading as strength. And I get that. I'm not naive about that, but I'm not backing down.'
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