Watch out for those who’re mocking California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He simply would possibly fireplace again with one thing completely sudden and uncomfortably embarrassing. Simply ask President Donald Trump.
On this newest social media spat between archrivals Newsom and Trump, the president actually regrets the newest message the Republican Get together posted on X as a result of they bought one thing again nobody anticipated and positively the GOP didn’t wish to see, not to mention Trump.
It began on Friday Jan. 23 when Newsom posted a photograph of himself sitting at a desk working and captioned it “The person by no means stops working!”
The put up was a poke at Trump over his White Home communications crew, together with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who’ve claimed repeatedly that Trump dozing off in public at White Home conferences and occasions is because of the truth that “he’s at all times working.”
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But it surely rapidly escalated from there. The GOP’s official X account then reposted Newsom’s picture under a brand new meme exhibiting the governor sitting at that desk however drawing an image of a smiling Trump surrounded by hearts.
To not be outdone, Newsom went in for the kill posting a meme of the again of Trump drawing the birthday letter of a unadorned lady linked to the President’s former shut buddy and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. He didn’t have to say one single phrase to get his message throughout.
That put up went wildly viral with 128, 000 views and counting, greater than 8,300 reposts, and greater than 2,000 feedback.
Newsom stirring the Epstein pot resulted in simply what you’d count on. Social media exploded, greater than rising to the event to troll Trump and joke concerning the ongoing scandal.
“Now how tf do you get better from that,” X person Fish Flakes demanded together with a half dozen skeletons together with his caption above a video clip of a startled gerbil.
One other X person merely responded, “LMFAOOOOO.”
X person and award profitable designer Chris Wallace in all probability mentioned it finest: “Rattling the @GOP bought completely SMOKED lmao.”
The Wall Avenue Journal first reported the existence of the letter final summer time, revealing buddies of the disgraced financier despatched him racy playing cards for his fiftieth birthday, together with an especially vulgar one from Trump with a drawing of a unadorned lady on it and his signature throughout the genital space.
The letters have been then put collectively in a leather-bound e book by Epstein’s then-girlfriend convicted intercourse offender Ghislaine Maxwell, based on the Journal.
A livid Trump went ballistic and sued WSJ and its proprietor Rupert Murdoch for a $10 billion lawsuit, calling the letter on the time of the report “a pretend factor.”
Trump has repeatedly denied he wrote or signed the letter, however Trump and Epstein have been finest buddies on the time and handwriting specialists have verified Trump’s signature.
Epstein, a disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender, had ties to a few of the strongest folks on the earth, together with presidents, billionaires and even royalty. Trump frolicked with him in the course of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties however insists he by no means went to Epstein’s non-public island and that he’s not on the so-called “consumer listing,” however his former bromance buddy tech billionaire Elon Musk claims he’s seen the listing and Trump is on it.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 on expenses associated to intercourse trafficking minors and allegedly had a “consumer listing” with the names of those that used his companies. He died by suicide in a Manhattan jail not lengthy after his arrest.
Since then, conspiracy theories a couple of authorities cover-up have swirled. Trump’s MAGA supporters promoted the hypothesis for years, with Trump and Vice President JD Vance even stoking the conjecture in the course of the 2024 marketing campaign, promising to launch the Justice Division’s Epstein recordsdata if elected.
They haven’t launched all of the recordsdata and have stonewalled for months, even after Trump signed a regulation mandating the discharge by Dec. 19 and recent batch of some 2 million paperwork was dropped on Jan. 30. Now a brand new courtroom motion is making an attempt to drive the Division of Justice to abide by the regulation and launch the recordsdata of their entirety.
