California Gov. Gavin Newsom isn’t letting his nemesis President Donald Trump get away with something. Newsom, who has been trolling Trump for months and hysterically mocking his bombastic social media type, was at it once more this week in a counterattack to Trumps’ criticism throughout a Fox Information interview on Monday.
This time Newsom targeted on Trump’s psychological well being and stability, one thing that’s been making headlines for months now after quite a few public gaffes and long-winded rambling speeches.
In a sit-down dialogue with Fox host Laura Ingraham, Trump referred to as Newsom a “horrible governor.”
Newsom reposted the clip through which Trump stated, “Truthfully, I all the time favored him, however he’s a horrible governor. He’s a horrible governor. If he ran the nation like that, we’d have a fully gonzo nation. This nation could be gone.”
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Above the clip Newsom included a photograph of a capsule bottle labeled “Newsom Derangement Syndrome” with a recommened dosage of 1 20 mg capsule per day.
Newsom cleverly flipped the script, co-opting the time period “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) — initially coined by Trump supporters to label critics as irrational and impaired — and used it to show the president’s personal political weapon right into a hilarious punchline.
MAGA was livid at Newsom for “stealing” their time period.
“Dude, create your personal content material. This makes you look pathetic. No creativity,” stated Ashley on X whereas one other fumed, “You possibly can’t simply steal the development and act such as you’re cool.”
However critics have been having a blast on the meltdown, “hahahaha MAGA getting cooked!!!” stated one X consumer.
In one other put up reacting to the identical interview, Newsom additionally took purpose at a false assertion made by Trump throughout the identical interview.
Trump claimed Newsom is planning low-income housing in an space of the Pacific Palisades that burned throughout the devastating fireplace final January.
“He’s now taking an enormous part of Palisades or some space and he’s gonna construct low-income housing the place they used to have luxurious housing. He’s going to place low-income housing in,” Trump insisted.
Newsom clapped again with an epic put up on X posing one query: “Do individuals with dementia repeat false issues over and over?”
The Cali gov. posted the crushing reply.
“Sure, individuals with dementia incessantly repeat false statements, questions, or tales again and again. It is a frequent symptom often called perseveration or repetitive speech/habits, and it typically entails inaccurate or fabricated info (typically referred to as confabulation),” the governor wrote.
Each of Newsom’s put up went viral with the second receiving greater than 1.7 million views and 4,400 reposts.
X consumer Dwayne Walton agreed with Newsom in a put up exhibiting a photograph of Trump and captioned, “TRUMP HAS DEMENTIA ‘THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT. HE DENEGRATES INTO LITERAL INCOHERENCE, WHERE NO ONE CAN TELL WHAT HE IS TRYING TO SAY.”
And one other X consumer reacted this manner, “This describes Donald precisely. For the previous a number of years he has continued to decompensate. Trump doesnt know wtf is occurring so he makes it up. Had been uninterested in his demented BS and falling asleep on a regular basis.”
“Trump is a disgusting, evil liar. He lies the best way different individuals breathe,” added one other.
Newsom isn’t alone in questioning Trump’s psychological well being.
Within the trove of paperwork the Home Oversight Committee launched Wednesday from the property of convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, emails present how Epstein additionally questioned Trump’s psychological stability in a number of exchanges courting again greater than a decade, in accordance with the Impartial.
In an electronic mail from January of 2017, Epstein calls Trump “f-cking loopy” and in one other electronic mail throughout the identical time interval he stated the President may need “early dementia.”
Then in December of 2018, Epstein referred to as Trump “borderline insane.”
The President’s United Nations deal with in September additionally prompted headlines about Trump’s psychological well being. Trump launched into a virtually hour-long speech full of petty complaints and fantastical claims and vented repeatedly a few damaged escalator and a malfunctioning teleprompter. He additionally once more falsely claimed he brokered peace offers in at the least seven international conflicts.
