Newsom Trolls Trump
G
avin Newsom is taking a page from Donald Trump’s playbook, imitating the president’s rants on social media. The California governor has boasted of his own “beautiful”
midterm redistricting proposal and his “beautiful” rally. And, just like Trump, he’s often writing his posts in ALL CAPS. For instance, he wrote on Aug. 11: “DONALD TRUMP, IF YOU DO
NOT STAND DOWN, WE WILL BE FORCED TO LEAD AN EFFORT TO REDRAW THE MAPS IN CA TO OFFSET THE RIGGING OF MAPS IN RED STATES.” It ended like so many of Trump’s posts do: “THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!” The Hill reports that Newsom is using a Trumpy-style nickname
for the president: TACO, short for Trump Always Chickens Out, an acronym that originated on Wall Street in reaction to Trump’s moves on tariffs and is designed to annoy the White House. Trump frequently refers to the governor as Gavin Newscum. The Hill says Newsom’s tactics are garnering attention from all ends of the media, while energizing Democrats eager to see members of their party fight back at the president. The HuffPost reported on Newsom’s antics with the headline
“He’s on a Troll” with a photo of a smiling Newsom. “Democrats are over being the ‘nice guy’ party,” said Democrat
strategist Jamal Simmons, who served as Kamala Harris’ communications director in the vice president’s ofice. “Standing up for Dem values doesn’t mean you have to play by the old rules, and Newsom in particular is showing he’ll go as low as he needs to take on Trump.” Anthony Coley, a Democrat strategist who served in the Biden
administration, said “watching him go toe-to-toe with Trump on social media — an arena Trump has dominated for a decade — is refreshing, energizing, and even fun to watch for many Democrats.” A poll in late August by Echelon Insights showed Newsom
surging in a 2028 presidential race among likely candidates. It puts him in second place at 13%, behind Harris who received 26%.
on March 3, 2025, lists 120 line items of real estate, leas- es, wine sellers, restaurants, bars, alcohol distributors, and other business entities in which Newsom has at least a 10% ownership share. These show at least $15.2
million in assets and no less than $2.1 million in annual income. Based on the low range of his reported earn- ings, Newsom’s net worth is likely north of $25 million. Newsom reported no less than $10 million in assets in his 2023 filing. When Newsom made his
start in politics and was first required to file a financial
disclosure report, he reported assets of at least $950,000 — not bad for a 28-year-old son of a “single mother,” as he likes to remind everyone. At $25 million today, that’s
a 26-fold increase for an annu- alized rate of return of 11.8% — almost up there with aunt- in-law Pelosi’s stock picks.
MIGRATION During Gavin Newsom’s tenure in California’s gov- ernor’s office, he’s been the nation’s leading proponent of green energy and the need for the West to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions — even as China, India, and
a rising Africa more than erase any illusory gains. Concurrently, California
has gone from having the nation’s eighth-highest elec- tricity prices in 2005 to the second-highest today, only behind Hawaii, with indus- trial rates about three times that of Texas. California’s
gasoline
prices are the highest in the nation, with two of the state’s nine refineries, un- der pressure from regula- tions, taxes, and greenhouse gas emissions fees, ready to pack up and shut down. Newsom is scrambling to
find a buyer amid rumors of a state takeover. This green Über alles, anti-human policy ap- proach has a direct bearing on California’s high cost of living and the decades-long domestic outmigration to Texas, Florida, and other freedom-loving (and afford- able) states. Newsom’s intimate asso-
ciation with the Getty fam- ily, especially Gordon Getty, is particularly revealing con- sidering Newsom’s naming of the core of his business empire after Getty’s first op- era, Plump Jack. In the op- era’s scene “Jerusalem” (Act II), King Henry IV says: O my poor kingdom, sick
with civil blows! When that my care could not withhold thy riots, What wilt thou do when
riot is thy care? Self-fulfilling prophecy disguised as art.
Chuck DeVore was a California state assemblyman 2004-2010 and retired as a lieutenant colonel after 24 years in the California Army National Guard. He is now an executive with the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin.
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