In an embarrassing ordeal for President Donald Trump, the longtime Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, dismantled the president’s latest outburst: a rant laced with lies, personal jabs, and thinly veiled attempts to smear his opponents.
The tirade began with a new low that Trump achieved in spreading false narratives for his political gain. He accused the Governor of California and Mayor Karen of having “failed” their people, sneering that Newsom let California houses burn in the wildfires by “not accepting hundreds of millions of gallons of water from the Pacific Northwest.” His post began with a bizarre attack on affordable housing:
“Shockingly, I have just learned, that Gavin Newscum, the Governor of California, is in final stages of approval to build low income housing in Pacific Palisades. How unfair is that to the people that have suffered so much!,” Trump wrote.
Beginning right from the blatant disrespect shown to the governor by deliberately misspelling his name, Trump bared his disgusting political agenda and ego behind the post. He continued accusing Newsom of misconduct and misadministration, saying, “now, the low income housing starts rising long before he [Newsom] gets permits for California citizens to rebuild, but long after the federal permits were issued.”
But as with many of Trump’s rants, the mask slipped. By the end of his baseless rant, the self-congratulatory narrative returned in full force:
“Lee Zeldin, EPA Administrator, and I, as President, have done the job, and produced all permits long before anybody expected that to happen.”
The self-proclaimed hero then misleadingly asserted that Newscom’s “plan to build low income housing (at the super luxury Pacific Palisades fire site) is what caused the destruction of the late, great New York City Mayor John Lindsay’s political career,” before acting mightily, high, and critical by reminding people that Lindsay was a Republican.
This was perhaps the most absurd twist. Trump tried to tie Newsom’s housing plans to the downfall of New York’s late Mayor John Lindsay, warning Californians that history was poised to repeat itself. It was a desperate mix of revisionism, ego, and fear-mongering, all hallmarks of Trump’s political playbook. However, this time, Newsom struck right back and simply summed up Trump’s post as a “straight up lie.”
While some users rushed to demand an explanation from the governor, asserting how he “can’t just say it was a lie without having backing to that,” others spent time fact-checking Trump’s claims. One such user broke down Trump’s tweets with facts proving his dishonesty:
Another user struck at Trump’s dirty tactics to defame Newsom, and wrote, “Since he’s misspelling your name to humiliate, are we allowed to do the same and call him Donald J C*nt?” While stooping to the same low as him is not the most politically correct strategy, Trump has once again shown his willingness to get his hands and mouth dirty to win the narrative war in favor of his political agenda with this spectacle.
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