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3 days ago
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Frustrated Gavin Newsom Calls Out Trump's Ultimate ‘Weakness'
California Governor Gavin Newsom has attacked Donald Trump for 'sowing chaos' in Los Angeles and creating a 'theater of the absurdity' as immigration protests continue. During an interview with Pod Saves America on Monday, Newsom highlighted one of Trump's political flaws after a phone call with the president late Friday night which the 57-year-old had earlier described as 'decent.' Newsom was asked about Trump's polite call versus the attacks against him online by the president. 'They're just weakness masquerading as strength, they're cosplaying. I pray sanity can take shape here, I pray that they do not incite the kind of violence that they claim they seek to avoid,' Newsom said. Also speaking on the Meidas Touch podcast on Monday, Newsom spoke more about the call, revealing he had had a collaborative conversation with Trump on Friday, but added the president then lied about their discussion. 'It was unbelievably cordial, he never brought up the National Guard, he didn't want to talk about what was going on in L.A.,' Newsom said of the phone call. 'Then a few hours later he federalizes the National Guard, he lays claim that somehow it had solved all the problems and the Guard hadn't even officially been deployed. (He) completely lied about that, lied about our conversation, said he discussed the National Guard with me specifically.' Newsom also attacked Trump's deployment of troops to L.A. and blamed him for a 'manufactured crisis.' It comes as an additional deployment of 2,000 troops was authorized by the president on Monday night, on top of an earlier contingency sent by the president. The latest batch was confirmed by Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesman and assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs. The governor said among the troops, California's 79th Infantry had been pulled from working on forest management to prepare for wildfire season. 'These are the folks that are currently being deployed now, they are being sent here for this theater of the absurdity. 'They were working on fentanyl interdiction and doing task force work... all of these extraordinary efforts that can no longer be done, or at least are disrupted because of this 'show'. And that's all this is,' Newsom said. 'There are 1,700 of these young men and women that are sitting around waiting for something and another 2,000 have been nationalized again just so Donald Trump can pound his chest and act like he is in control. He is creating chaos, he is sowing chaos.' Meidas Touch host Ben Meiselas pressed Newsom on being threatened with arrest. 'I don't want to be hyperbolic and act like a victim but honestly, I literally never thought in my life I'd hear those words uttered by the President of the United States. Directing the arrest of a political opponent that won an election and happens to be the governor of the largest state in our country. It's really about having the audacity to call him out on his unconstitutional actions.' Newman told Pod Save America he had put a plan in place in case he was arrested. 'We've already processed what that may look like that if they do get a federal warrant to arrest me. That the very act if I chose to fly back to Sacramento from L.A. could be grounds then for them actually having cause to arrest. The fact that we have had that conversation with our folks, in the United States in 2025, says everything you need to know about who's in the White House right now.' Speaking on CNN Monday night, Trump's border czar Tom Homan said that while Newsom had not done anything to warrant an arrest, he would not hesitate if that changed. The governor also said he first heard the nickname Trump has for him, 'Newscum', when he was a child. 'It's the President of the United States calling (me) what an eighth grade bully called me when I was a kid. Rather pathetic.'
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Bill Maher tells former Obama speechwriter Dems 'want to lose elections' if they don't budge on trans issues
"Real Time" host and comedian Bill Maher sparred with former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett over the issue of Democrats supporting gender transition treatments for children. On the "Pod Saves America" podcast on Sunday, Maher called out the position as a woke "outlier" from not only Americans but the world as a whole, alienating them from average voters. "The Democratic position in [California] has been that the school has the right to hide it from the parents," Maher said. "That is not something that's going to go well with the average voter." He later added, "And the fact that you think, or a lot of people on the left think, that even if you just have this debate, it makes you a bigot, you just have to roll over…that was their position. If you even question this, you're some sort of a bigot. And this is new science. And it has to do with children. And it's not going to look good in the future, that position." Maher Calls Out 'Woke Excess' Of U.s. Medical Establishment: 'Afraid' To Back Down On Gender Care For Kids Lovett pushed back by comparing the situation to gay people being accused of "grooming" young boys, insisting that the treatments shouldn't be discarded because a "few" may regret transitioning. Read On The Fox News App "But they're also really important surgeries that people get for their heart. And they go wrong and somebody dies and nobody says, we must stop the cardiologists. No one says we must stop the surgeons," Lovett continued. "That's your analogy?" Maher interrupted incredulously. "We don't get rid of the specific surgery," Lovett continued as the two spoke over each other. "We don't throw out a whole field of medicine. We say, let's make sure we're doing it in a way that's healthy. The science, the research, alright, makes clear that, yes, there are exceptions. Yes, there are people practicing it in ways that maybe go too far, but for the most part, study after study shows that gender-affirming care saves a lot of lives." Lovett also accused Republicans of taking "edge cases" like transgender athletes in girls' locker rooms to try and make a "war" against all transgender people. Maher agreed but called out Lovett's claim that "study after study" has shown the treatment's benefits. He pointed to a report from 2024 that revealed that a study on the effects of puberty blockers on kids' mental health went unpublished out of concern it would be "weaponized" by critics. "So in other words, it came out not the way you wanted the study to come out, not what you said, that 'Oh, all the studies show that.' No, it is a mixed bag," Maher said. Lovett grew more heated as he argued there would be some times when parents must be left out of the decision on gender transition treatments. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture "Look, we all believe that parents should have the decisions over their children, but we also recognize that some parents do such a bad f---ing job that the kids are in danger," Lovett said. "That happens in outside of trans issues. That happens all the time. It's terrible. Some parents are f---ing terrible, but somehow that the fact that there are terrible parents in the world gets erased on these questions. Do I think that schools should, but as a baseline, be keeping a secret from parents? Of f---ing course not. No one thinks that. No one thinks that." "Apparently that's not true," Maher interjected. "People do think that. And there is no perfect answer to this. It's as many knotty questions, the least bad answer—" "The least bad answer is to not have the government decide from above is just to leave it up to people and parents, then the kids and the doctors. Right? You want the government to ban gender affirming care for kids?" Lovett fired back. "You want to lose every election? Just keep coming down on the side of parents coming in second and a 'who gets to decide what goes on with your kid' contest," Maher said. Click Here To Get The Fox New AppOriginal article source: Bill Maher tells former Obama speechwriter Dems 'want to lose elections' if they don't budge on trans issues
Fox News
24-02-2025
- Politics
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Bill Maher tells former Obama speechwriter Dems 'want to lose elections' if they don't budge on trans issues
"Real Time" host and comedian Bill Maher sparred with former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett over the issue of Democrats supporting gender transition treatments for children. On the "Pod Saves America" podcast on Sunday, Maher called out the position as a woke "outlier" from not only Americans but the world as a whole, alienating them from average voters. "The Democratic position in [California] has been that the school has the right to hide it from the parents," Maher said. "That is not something that's going to go well with the average voter." He later added, "And the fact that you think, or a lot of people on the left think, that even if you just have this debate, it makes you a bigot, you just have to roll over…that was their position. If you even question this, you're some sort of a bigot. And this is new science. And it has to do with children. And it's not going to look good in the future, that position." Lovett pushed back by comparing the situation to gay people being accused of "grooming" young boys, insisting that the treatments shouldn't be discarded because a "few" may regret transitioning. "But they're also really important surgeries that people get for their heart. And they go wrong and somebody dies and nobody says, we must stop the cardiologists. No one says we must stop the surgeons," Lovett continued. "That's your analogy?" Maher interrupted incredulously. "We don't get rid of the specific surgery," Lovett continued as the two spoke over each other. "We don't throw out a whole field of medicine. We say, let's make sure we're doing it in a way that's healthy. The science, the research, alright, makes clear that, yes, there are exceptions. Yes, there are people practicing it in ways that maybe go too far, but for the most part, study after study shows that gender-affirming care saves a lot of lives." Lovett also accused Republicans of taking "edge cases" like transgender athletes in girls' locker rooms to try and make a "war" against all transgender people. Maher agreed but called out Lovett's claim that "study after study" has shown the treatment's benefits. He pointed to a report from 2024 that revealed that a study on the effects of puberty blockers on kids' mental health went unpublished out of concern it would be "weaponized" by critics. "So in other words, it came out not the way you wanted the study to come out, not what you said, that 'Oh, all the studies show that.' No, it is a mixed bag," Maher said. Lovett grew more heated as he argued there would be some times when parents must be left out of the decision on gender transition treatments. "Look, we all believe that parents should have the decisions over their children, but we also recognize that some parents do such a bad f---ing job that the kids are in danger," Lovett said. "That happens in outside of trans issues. That happens all the time. It's terrible. Some parents are f---ing terrible, but somehow that the fact that there are terrible parents in the world gets erased on these questions. Do I think that schools should, but as a baseline, be keeping a secret from parents? Of f---ing course not. No one thinks that. No one thinks that." "Apparently that's not true," Maher interjected. "People do think that. And there is no perfect answer to this. It's as many knotty questions, the least bad answer—" "The least bad answer is to not have the government decide from above is just to leave it up to people and parents, then the kids and the doctors. Right? You want the government to ban gender affirming care for kids?" Lovett fired back. "You want to lose every election? Just keep coming down on the side of parents coming in second and a 'who gets to decide what goes on with your kid' contest," Maher said.
