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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Chaos) really, really wants to be arrested over his defiance of Trump’s efforts to deport illegal migrants and stop the rioting in Los Angeles over the deportations. He is unlikely to get his way, but he is playing up the moment for all it’s worth.
The mediagenic leftist appears to be calculating that if he really were handcuffed and perp-walked, the experience would catapult him to front-runner status in the race for the 2028 Democrat presidential nomination as well as make him the undisputed leader of all those who have been stirred up all these years to hate Donald Trump with burning intensity. It would add fuel to the Trump-is-a-dictator nonsense in the bargain. So for Newsom, there’s no downside.
Newsom himself ginned up the dispute, as Stephen Green pointed out on Monday morning. NBC News reported that Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, “threatened arrest for anyone who obstructs the immigration enforcement effort, including Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — though he acknowledged that neither yet had ‘crossed the line.’”
Newsom took that hypothetical and ran with it as if Homan had been pounding on the door of his home at 4 a.m. and shouting at him over a bullhorn to surrender peacefully. “He’s a tough guy,” Newsom said. “Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me. That kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.”
Inevitably, President Trump was asked to weigh in on this manufactured controversy, and he was happy to oblige. Asked if he thought Homan should arrest Newsom, Trump replied: “I would do it, if I were Tom. I think it is great. Gavin likes the publicity” — you can say that again, Mr. President — “but I think it would be a great thing. He’s done a terrible job. Look, I like Gavin Newsom, he’s a nice guy, but he’s grossly incompetent. Everybody knows. All you have to do is look at the little railroad he’s building. It’s about a hundred times over budget.”
This was music to Newsom’s ears. He posted the video of Trump’s remarks on X and commented: “The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”
Yeah, sure it is. Remember, the guy saying this never uttered a word of protest when Trump himself was arrested, and when the Biden regime weaponized the Justice Department against its principal opponent. Newsom didn’t have a thing to say about authoritarianism when the Biden regime set up a Disinformation Governance Board, or pressured the social media giants to silence COVID dissidents, or treated pro-life Catholics and angry parents at school board meetings as if they were terrorists. And so Newsom will have to forgive patriots if they regard all his posturing as authoritarianism as just that, posturing for his own political advantage.
Numerous X users, meanwhile, weighed in with some choice words for the opportunist in Sacramento. One said to Newsom, “Your defiance of federal authority is escalating chaos in LA. Trump’s call for order isn’t authoritarianism—it’s a response to your failure to control violent protests. Governors don’t get a free pass to obstruct law enforcement. The rule of law applies to all, including you.” Former Congressional candidate Ron Bassilian put it succinctly: “Nobody is above the law, Gavin.” “Gays For Trump” added, “If they arrested a former President they can arrest a sitting Governor.” And an X user with a long memory noted, “You called for his arrest on camera 7 times.”
Consistency, however, has never been a strong suit, or a serious concern, of Democrat politicians. They know that the establishment media will cover for them no matter what, and that gives them a certain latitude in their public pronouncements. Meanwhile, even though Newsom will almost certainly not get arrested, his defiance of federal authority is indeed adding to the chaos in Los Angeles. If this continues and spreads, the left could have the civil war it has wanted for so long. If it comes to that point, even Gavin Newsom might draw back. After all, how can he be president if there is nothing for him to be president of?
Why arrest Newscum when he can just be shot in the face? Somebody please kill that greasy piece of shit.
I’ve been busy and must have missed President Trump declaring June 11th to be “Dumb Statement Contest Day.” (Can the comment that introducing soccer to the U.S. is a Communist plot be submitted to the contest or are only new really dumb statements allowed?)
The education system must have brainwashed me. I thought the political system in the U.S. was set up such that we vote out politicians we don’t like, not shoot them in the face.
Here’s a deep thought from Jack Handey: “If you’re robbing a bank and your pants fall down, I think it’s okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.”
Upvote below if you think Jeff’s statement is dumber. Downvote if you think Jack’s is dumber.
Down vote Huge Dumbass if you hate retards.
I refuse to thumb up/down because you manipulated your comment so that you win either way ==
I only see and commented on Jeff’s comment because I feel an affinity of sorts — I mean when I am not reading and article and glance down to see the comments- I don’t think about who commented all day including my own comments – You fail to keep in mind James Comey, another deep state stooge puppet whore, arranged sea shells to read 8647 – and what, nothing, no charges yet or at all?
This sets a standard – and in Jeff’s case, it’s the feeling of most MAGA people in CommieFornia – I used to live there – when I retired I fled – sad because I miss the coast – the fall of Los Angeles and California is nigh – it’s happening now – Newscum and LA Mayor Basshole let LA burn January this year and now allowing the obstructing of commerce and 911 first responders – can you imagine you or your loved ones need paramedics or your house is burning and criminality and they can’t get to your because illegal aliens are rioting? It is you who need to learn common sense critical thinking.
Have your bagel and coffee – you’ll be alright if you don’t live in CommieFornia
I think the only good thing left about Commieforrnia besides the beautiful landscape is the chicks. I meet them wherever I go. They’re all over the place. They even come to my door on a regular basis. You’d have to be dead not to get laid in this state. Maybe not even then.
In your dreams, dude!
I don’t know what that means but CA chicks are so loose I would swear they’re all in heat 365 days a year.
And you can only dream of scoring a guy like me. Stick to cuck boys. That seems your speed, skank breath.
I see we have three America haters here. Leave the country, scumbags. Nobody wants you here.
They won’t leave because they would get their asses kicked and their heads blown off in another country. Only in America do we allow dangerous clueless morons and Porta Potty scum lickers to hang around.
what’s with the thumbs down on this comment – get rid of the satanic commie scum Gruesome NewScum –
dancing for the satanic globalist deep state all dead heading to the antichrist =—
ewwww – maybe deep state stooge puppet whore Gruesome NewScum is the antichrist?
Nahhh—-the antichrist has always been and is lucifer-satan
I’ve always thought that FP Mag attracted a slightly more intelligent class of commenters. Apparently I’ve been wrong.
You’re slightly more intelligent than a butt cancer cell. Barely. Say hi to Joe.
I have 4 degrees and diplomas. What have you got?
So what you are telling us is you wasted the best years of your life going into debt in college and now you are on a comment board.
Well done.
No I think Newsom the King is a Total idiot and will keep digging the hole that he will not be able to get out of.
But NO BODY NO MATTER WHAT SIDE OF THE ISLE YOU ARE IN CAN SHOOT ANYONE.
EXPOSE THE IDOT FOR ALL THE TRASHING OF CALIFORNIA AND NO BID CONTRACTS BUT MURDER IS NOT THE ANSWER!
Murder sounds good to me. If it was good enough for Julius Caesar, it’s good enough for that grease pit. Abe Lincoln got shot but Newscum doesn’t? I don’t care which part of his face he gets shot in, I just hope somebody puts a bullet or two in there. Right in his scowling mouth would be a good shot.
Jeff, you are SUCH schweeeeethawrt
Always with a kind word, er, a kind of word
The shooting of Governor Gruesome would be an environmental disaster causing an oil spill. It would however, cure a mental disaster.
It will also give the Left all the ammunition it needs to discredit conservatives and invalidate their views.
They already try that 24/7 365 days a year. They’re shooting blanks.
It’s ok to shoot Trump though. Let’s not forget.
Yeah, that guy’s hair has more grease on it than a turkey’s asshole. Who needs Alaskan oil fields when you have that hair-do? It looks 30 weight.
Hell yes, the arsonist can be arrested!
Newsom: A nice guy and a traitor to America at the same time? That can’t be right.
I would love to see the guy with the simpering smile, little hands on his knees, and the hairgel dripping down his forehead, get arrested, along with the fat ugly mayor of LA Karen (B)ass.
“Little hands?” This reminds me of “little Marco’s” insightful comment about Trump’s hands. See “Trump v. Rubio | Trump Defends Size of His Manhood” on YouTube. Upvote this post if you think Rubio’s manhood is bigger than Trump’s. Downvote if you think Trump’s is bigger.
Down vote if we think you’re gay, which we do.
Up vote on your intuition, thumb down vote because I follow instructions – LoL
How can you lose on this one?
grow up – I wanted to just leave it at grow up but that comment don’t post because it’s too short –
you’re comment is beyond infantile
You cannot use the choice offered to conceal the fact that down votes have nothing to do with Trump v. Rubio. They are Readers v. Hugh.
Hopefully you are only here for today. I am downvoting you because you are a dumba$$
The preening prick could just simply clasp his hands behind his back, like AOC & Ilhan Omar did for the cameras.
At the least the dumbshit should learn better how to lie. He lied to lady during the LA fire that he was on phone with Braindead Biden.
Now he forgot that phone calls, ALL phone calls are logged. Oops!
Ken Doll Newsome did such a thorough job turning San Francisco into a literal shitscape, that the the illegal population voted him in as Governor. (To be fair to illegal voters, Newsome DOES deliver on welfare & illegals living in a shithole is something they’re used to anyway.)
Gruesome NewScum personality is to lie about phone calls – he lied that he was on the phone to Biden during the LA fires and he lied to another lady that he was on the phone to President Trump about the LA riots – This satanic SOB Newscum is yet another pathological liar like his mentor Joe Briben and auntie Nutsy Nasty nazzi PeeLousy
ANOTHER COMMUNIST BULLSHITTER who never sheds tears for THE VICTIMS OF ILLEGALS and only for rapists, murderers, gangs, and terrorists!
How long will it take for him to blame Trump for his failed address last night: “Trump weaponized the Satellites to disrupt my Free Speech like all Dictators do!”
Should the NG and Marines leave L.A. and let it burn? Smashed windows with skateboards? Looted stores? Businesses boarding up their windows with plywood?
Our Albuquerque Mayor, Tim Keller, now running for his third term, incited a mob at the Peace and Justice Center, along with other radicals, with them marching downtown TO SMASH MOST OF THE WINDOWS with Keller giving Stand Down orders to APD. The mob was about to torch our historic Kimo Theater which had Swastikas symbols on top of the building. APD stopped them. The MOB didn’t know that those symbols were NAVAJO designs on a building built in 1924, before Nazis. The businesses put plywood which local artists painted. THEN THE MAYOR GIVES THEM $150,000 to fix the windows two years after the destruction. THEY SHOULD HAVE SUED but they got much of the Covid funds so they kept quiet! THOSE BUSINESSES closed and others are barely making it! SO…. LET L.A. BURN IN HOPES THAT THE CITIZENS WAKE THE HELL UP AND VOTE THESE COMMUNISTS OUT???
No, the National Guard and Marines should NO abandon their assigned posts. They are therre to DO a job. let them DO it.
This nation is founded on certain principles…. Those are more important and necessary than someone”s hurted widdow feewings……
What DID men like Paul Revere, William Dawes, William Heath, Joseph Warren, Dr. Prescott,, Mr. Barrett, and fourteen thousand others who mustered i the middle of the night round Boston 250 years ago do it for? WHY were those men about on a night in April?
THIS is what is at stake. Either we will remain a nation oflaws and true liberty, or we will surrender to the goon squads and whineres who refuse to stand up for the laws and principles upon which this nation and her people rest.
It is blatantly obvious by now that the like of Newsome, Bass, Pelosi, are NOT on the side of liberty nor peace. Let them make their own beds, then lie upon them.
This RED state Conservative is tired of blue state know-it-alls.
I’ll stay with Bullwinkle.
2026 midterms are approaching – the events of the LA Pacific Palisades fire and other cities in LA County to today’s riots with illegal aliens and LA Mayor Basshole and Gruesome NewScum has proven in a 6 month period they don’t give a shit about their constituents and tax paying, legal voting citizens that pay their fantastic salaries, perks and pension. They are pandering to the satanic deep state to which they have pledged allegiance and those illegals can easily get a fake voting ID card without a driver’s license and SSI# to stuff the ballots with criminal illegal aliens so they can keep getting perks from tax payer’s dollars. They are illegals because they broke the law illegally entering USA – they may or may not have previous criminal records or wanted in other nations, but they are criminals for the immigration laws of USA they broke! Illegal aliens have no stake in USA – they know they are here illegally and eventually that gets to their psyche and they become brazen enough to show themselves in public waving another nation’s flag while creating mayhem and destruction and bodily injury.
Get those illegal aliens the fuck out of my country!
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
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“I like Gavin Newsom, he’s a nice guy”
I’ll say it if no one else will. With that statement, Trump is yanking our chain or is full of sh*t! Come on president Trump, don’t piss on our leg and tell us it’s raining!
Trump’s zinger for Gruesome used the hard-soft approach that the Soviets used in the Cold War that was based on Pavlovian psychology. Yes, he said “nice guy,” but called him incompetent delivering the real message right after the set up. The listeners hearing “nice guy” were like the dogs conditioned to respond to the sound indicating they were about to be fed only to hear incompetent like the unfed dogs they became.
I ‘ve lived in California all my life. Calling Newscum a “nice guy” isn’t funny at all and I don’t appreciated Trump calling him that. Doing so is an insult to those of us who live in this Marxist/democrat sh*thole state. Newscum and his friends and family can go to hell for all I care.
F**K them! Yeah, you heard it right. F**K them!!
Please read the rest of the quote in which Mr Trump said but he’s an incompetent governor and so forth.
Dontchya recognise sarcasm when it whacks ya upside yer haid
Arrested and Charged with Treason and giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
“Look, I like Gavin Newsom, he’s a nice guy, but he’s grossly incompetent”
If there ever was a man with zero principles or is grossly amoral, its our POTUS.
Grossly moroffic.
Gee, for a man with zero principles he’s gotten an awful lot done in his first 100 days, and for the better. Please explain yourself. Or better yet, keep the mud slinging, I love how stupid it makes you look.
And yet he turned America around and made it competent again.
Nobody misses Pedo Joe and his butt cancer.
Linus:
GFYS and that broke back nag you keep in the basement for when you’re feeling a little randy.
President Trump’s federalizing the California National Guard, and deploying Marines was not to uphold the law, but to violate one, the Posse Comitatus Act. He wants to cancel that law in order to push aside the States in his pursuit of tyrannical control of the country in defiance of the Founders vision.
The Founders would have used their own weapons against the rioters. They had vision, not blindness.
The President has unlimited authority in a national emergency and plenty of other situations. LA burning under mobs is a national emergency. It’s the second largest city in the country.
No gay joke? You’re slipping. And what exactly does it mean to make a country competent again? Thanks for sharing that you beat up a homeless person. What a guy!
By all means arrest Gavin Newsom on charges of insurrection, aiding and abetting sedition and treason.
This is a moral imperative! He must be made an example of to show all who think that they can make up
their own rules and laws independent of our Nation’s Constitution and oaths of office both Federal and State.
Newsom, Bonta, Waters, Pelosi, Bass…………..all must go. All must be stripped of their political power. All must
serve time and their is no time like THIS TIME to get the process started.
Why does Homan think that they haven’t crossed the line? What more would they have to do?
Those in Office take a Oath to Support, Protect and Defend the Constitution then go and break that oath by supporting Gun Control/Confiscation to appease the Useless Nations and their Globalists Goals
Even Newsom himself demands to be arrested.
Oblige him, Marines!