Trump Reacts to CA Gov. Newsom’s Special Legislative Session in Response to Election Results
Newsom is peacocking one last time, before being term-limited out of office in 2026.
In the wake of the massive election victory currently being enjoyed by President Donald Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom convened a special session of the Legislature, seeking to increase legal funding to protect woke policies that are likely to be targeted under the new administration.
Newsom’s preemptive strike signals the return of the hostile relationship between Democratic-controlled California and the Trump administration, a feud that was a hallmark of the Republican’s first term.
“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle,” Newsom said in a statement. “California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond. We are prepared to fight in the courts, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”
The new special session provides an early look at Newsom’s plan to wage an aggressive and highly visible campaign to shield California from the Trump White House.
The governor’s move is largely symbolic: Lawmakers are likely to pass the legislation at the same speed as they could have through the regular process.
Newsom is peacocking, hoping to be the face of the #Resistance movement before his term is limited in 2026. Once he is out of office, and there are few prestigious offices he can occupy ahead of a 2028 election run, Newsom is in danger of falling into obscurity ahead of the next Democratic presidential primary cycle.
The move also ignores the message Californians sent in 2024.
Newsom has his eyes on the White House and is already planning to run in the 2028 primaries; this is a way of waving the bloody shirt on abortion rights and other social issues … that Trump will do nothing to touch in Cali.
He’s also very clearly giving a middle finger to the voters he’s supposed to represent.
Trump improved his margin of victory in California massively over 2020, while Golden State voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36, a ballot initiative to stiffen criminal penalties for drug crimes and theft, after Newsom spent months campaigning against it.
Trump mocked Newsom for this unnecessary Resistance Theater.
“He is using the term ‘Trump-Proof’ as a way of stopping all of the GREAT things that can be done to ‘Make California Great Again,’ but I just overwhelmingly won the Election,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. “People are being forced to leave due to his, & other’s, INSANE POLICY DECISIONS.”
President-elect Trump on his Truth Social responds to Gov. Newsom’s call for a special legislative session to protect California from Trump’s proposed policies.
Says he will demand Voter ID and proof of citizenship in voting process: pic.twitter.com/pK51YlSnSg
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) November 8, 2024
As a Californian, I had a few thoughts about Newsom’s stunt. To begin with, there would be a far better political move if Newsom were brave enough to try it.
Here's a thought: How about partnering with the Trump team to make the lives of the Americans living in California better. A sane, bipartisan response might be an innovative and successful approach if you are looking at 2028. Skip the #Resistance drama. pic.twitter.com/xQ8wIIOTTi
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) November 7, 2024
However, this is Newsom we are talking about. Out-of-the-box thinking that actually helps his constituency is off-brand for him.
Therefore, I would recommend Trump send Vice President JD Vance to California whenever this state requires some attention at the federal level. Vance is already considered a front-runner for 2028.
Less than 48 hours after the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance clinched the 2024 election, betting markets released odds for the 2028 presidential election winner.
The favorite: Middletown native JD Vance.
Vance (+300) is the overwhelming favorite among the Republican party, according to William Hill’s odds.
The betting favorite to be his opponent in 2028 is former First Lady Michelle Obama.
At +500, she holds a slight edge over California Gov. Gavin Newsom (+550).
Imagine how Vance would handle Resistance General Newsom.
Vance’s stature and demeanor will diminish Newsom even further in the eyes of most Americans, even before the first primary is held.
I hope Newsom enjoys peacocking one last time, as the rooster is crowing over the dawn of a new era.
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Gary Larson covered it
https://at.pinterest.com/pin/385339311863588948/
The greatest cartoonist ever !
Abolish the SALT exemptions that subsidize the wealthy in CA and NY. Cut off all federal funds for “sanctuary states” too
Trump already eviscerated this deduction and it remains so.
It doesn’t subsidize just the wealthy.
Now, almost any halfway decent house in LA, San Diego, or Sf Bay is over a million dollars.
There are a lot of conservatives here.
Just not enough to change anything, yet…
They all left for Texas and Florida.
Newsom is so morally twisted that when he is buried it will be necessary to dig a round hole and screw him into the ground..
His head is probably as hard as the carbide I use on my PTO post hole digger. I hope that his head is as brittle. Every time I hit a rock they shatter.
Gavin’s really cooking with gas now. Hey, wait a minute!
“I’m ‘proofing’ the state against the constituency! Because Democracy!” says the f*cking retard.
Its time we enforced the superimcy clause and stopped these left wing states from thumbing their nose at law
Sounds kind of seditiony to me.
Sedition: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.
(“Sedition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedition. Accessed 11 Nov. 2024.)
Naw, only Republicans can commit sedition.
Gov. Noisome would have the rest of the country believe that the paradise of Utopia-on-the-Pacific is threatened if even a smidgin of common sense ever drifts westward from DC.
I left California in 2016 for Idaho. We will have to remind America that Newsom was a Covid totalitarian. He has adopted an Orwellian view of freedom. To him and Democrats today, freedom means doing what they dictate and regulate. Big Brother rises in California.
I read this, ““The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack…”, and thought the same thing. Newsom’s “freedom” is the power accumulated by the State’s authoritarian Democrats. It has nothing to do with “freedom” as that word is used by normal people. Indeed, in Newsom’s use it represents a power that’s the diametric opposite of individual liberty.
It was in the Gabbling Nuisance’s domain, back in the height of the covidiocy, a line windsurfer was half mile offshore in Orange Coiunty, sailing about witn not one other person in sight. OH NO can’t have THIS! said the Geshtoppo. Sheriff’s “rescue” boat was deployed, they chased him down, arrested him, s=cinfiscated his board, and threw him in jail for “violating” covididiotic rules. SO he went from not one other human within eyesight in any direction to tossed in a cell with ow many other men, none of which had been medically cleared to assure they were not carrying any transmissible diseases.. namely covid. He was in that cell for some time, certainly ling enough to becme medically exposed to whatever might have bee “going round”.
THAT is “California Justice” under the Nuisance.
If the House remains in GOP hands (as of this writing, it’s still up in the air), could Congress and Trump’s administration just steer money and resources away from California to other, friendlier states like Texas and Utah?
Probably not directly, but federal largesse could be conditional upon some matter of concern. For instance, money for “improving election management” could be tied to a requirement for voter ID or a citizenship requirement for voting. A State would miss out on “free money” for not qualifying for it.
Newsom depends on federal grant monies to power his grifting patronage schemes. Billions fed into state agency and “charity” ratholes with zero accountability or audit mechanisms. And purposefully so.
Trump winning removes Newsom’s most potent power tool – clientelism.
Aggressive federal Investigation of his phony schemes will yield results.
Secede! That’s the ticket!
I foresee Californias’ fiscal collapse under it’s socialist policies and their avenue out ( Already in the works ) would be a Federal Bailout.
How to avoid this burden is mysterious to me.
The never ending story of “we haven’t done enough for ____!” More spending, more tases, more spending, more taxes… Newsom describes California as a “nation state”. It isn’t The Party that has made California great, but it was been the Party that has turned the gold to urine stained.
Make sure they secede first.
I’m in WA, and our one-party Dem government tries to copy everything they do in CA. I wish I could move to FL (where I’m from), but all my in-laws live close to here, and my wife won’t budge.
I’m in deep-blue SoCal, formerly of Seattle. At this point, IMO the two states are equivalent except for better weather in SoCal. WA had begun to imitate Calif some time ago, before I left. I think OR is not much better, just taking longer to be Californicated. All three states are basket-case status at this point. And there is that additional OR granola-crunching, earth-shoe wearing behavior for those who like that sort of thing.
“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle”
Nope! We’ll pack up the house and family and rent a big U-Haul to Tennessee, like we have been… only faster now.
Newsom reminds me of some Dr. Seuss character. I’m not sure which one but has swept back hair and smaller head than normal. Just makes me think of Seuss.
There is not a thing wrong with Newsome that a SEAL team could not cure.