California Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to enrage President Donald Trump as Newsom retains trolling the President on social media in a feud that’s been unfolding all summer time. And the governor’s newest put up is as humorous as ever.
After a reporter requested Trump Wednesday whether or not Newsom needs to be investigated over how he dealt with the lethal California wildfires in January, the President went after the governor once more, making a bizarre remark about his fingers.

“I watched him with the fingers. I’m saying, ‘What’s occurring with the fingers?’ There’s one thing improper with him. You watch him. There’s one thing improper with this man,” Trump mentioned, persevering with his lengthy obsession over fingers, and making no sense.
Reactions to Trump’s unsolicited insults promoted many to say he’s “jealous” of Newsom and “very insecure” about his personal fingers.
Newsom responded with one other hilarious put up on X, sharing a montage of Trump’s most embarrassing moments, together with tripping up the steps of Air Drive One, his mysterious hand bruises and even the time Trump was attacked by a bald eagle in his workplace. The put up was captioned, “We speaking fingers?” and set to the Reba McEntire music, “I’m a Survivor.”
Social media loved Newsom’s Trump meme maybe a bit an excessive amount of and fired off lots of of humorous hand-related feedback.
“That’s wealthy coming from Taco Two Fingers. Lol,” Threads consumer Mark Steven Ritter joked.
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“Pure projection from Tiny Fingers Trump…,” X consumer Tina Simms posted. “Fingers down the best response,” Sandiechill chimed in.
Amid all of the “LOLs” and “hahahas,” Mrs. H posted “Genuis!”
This Threads consumer posted a hysterical video montage of Trump taking part in an accordion over his wildly gesturing fingers throughout occasions through the years and captioned with, “’Unusual hand motion,’ I hear? ;-)”
“I’m nonetheless ready anxiously for somebody – ANYONE – to name him a liar to his face. I imply, not appropriate him, CALL HIM A LIAR TO HIS FACE!” this X consumer identified.
“This was savage,” one other X consumer noticed.
And this one, “I simply Love that Fuzzy microphone Spank he bought, eh?” referred to Trump get bonked within the face by a microphone in Newsom’s video.
This isn’t the primary time Trump has insinuated there’s one thing “bizarre” occurring with Newsom’s fingers. Throughout a cupboard assembly on Aug. 26 he advised reporters, “It’s just a little bizarre to be sincere. It’s just a little one thing shaky occurring there.”
Trump’s obsession with hand dimension dates again a long time. In the course of the 2016 presidential marketing campaign GOP candidate and present Secretary of State Marco Rubio actually bought below Trump’s pores and skin when he advised supporters that Trump “is at all times calling me ‘little Marco.’”
“He’s taller than me, he’s like six-two, which is why I don’t perceive why his fingers are the scale of somebody who’s five-two,” Rubio joked, based on ABC Information. “Have you ever seen his fingers? And you recognize what they are saying about males with small fingers — “
“You’ll be able to’t belief them,” Rubio added after a pregnant pause.
Nevertheless it was an outline of Trump revealed in Spy Journal nearly 40 years in the past that the President has apparently by no means gotten over.
Within the story, Self-importance Truthful editor Graydon Carter described Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian.” Carter advised ABC Information that the longer term president started sending him pictures of his fingers circled in gold sharpie with notes concerning the size of his fingers, which Carter nonetheless described a long time later as “abnormally stubby.”
The President’s newest feedback about Newsom’s fingers comply with weeks of hypothesis about Trump’s well being and, amongst different medical points, repeated bruising on his fingers, which he’s tried to cowl up with make-up.
Simply this week social media went wild over Trump’s bruised hand, main some to remark that he’s been critically in poor health recently, so sick the truth is that wild rumors unfold on-line over the Labor Day weekend that Trump had really died.
At a White Home occasion Tuesday, Trump mainly simply needed to show that he was really alive, however his fumbling response to a query concerning the widespread demise rumor simply added gasoline to the fireplace, inflicting much more hypothesis about his well being.
One other humorous put up by Newsom on X following Trump’s hand feedback, exhibits the governor holding a child Trump throwing a tantrum.
Newsom has been trolling Trump on social media for weeks, tearing a web page out of Trump’s personal MAGA playbook and mocking the President’s social media model.
It appears to be working, too, as Trump has turn out to be increasingly more defensive, lashing out repeatedly at Newsom each probability he will get.