OMG!! Newsom Delivers Major Blow to Trump at Press Event

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California Governor Gavin Newsom continues to go on offense against Donald Trump.

Governor Newsom held two powerful back-to-back press conferences on Friday.

One he held with labor unions to announce that he would be allowing 800,000 rideshare workers in California to unionize.

And the other press conference he held at UC Berkeley to talk about quantum technology and how the California legislature is doing everything in its power to continue to allow California to dominate quantum technology, leading the way for the future.

And California Governor Gavin Newsom at each press conference pointed out the distinction between how Donald Trump and Washington, D.C.

is utterly failing and destroying the country while California is leading the way.

I want to show you some key portions of those powerful press conferences, but I also want to show you how California Governor Gavin Newsom continues to mock, humiliate, bully, and call out Donald Trump, fighting fire with fire, acting with moral clarity, acting with the full force and authority of California behind him.

Governor Newsom posts the following image of Donald Trump as Marie Antoinette and says, the queen demands sympathy from you peasants.

Shutdown equals no diaper duty.

The palace stinks.

Poor Stephen Miller had to endure a rough one today.

I think talking about Donald Trump potentially defecating in his pants, wearing diapers.

Governor Newsom then posts the following: If the peasants are poor, maybe they should start a reality show like Our Queen.

Worked out beautifully for her.

Now she's rich, and you losers are about to lose your health care.

Another image of Donald Trump as Marie Antoinette.

California Governor Newsom then posts the following: Peasants, shut up about your health care.

Our queen's ballroom will be almost as beautiful as her.

Donald Trump continues to bail out Argentina.

$20 billion there.

Golden ballrooms.

Gold all over the White House.

Club Rose Garden.

UFC fights in front of the White House while Americans are being pushed off their affordable care plans, being pushed off Medicaid and having their Medicare severely limited.

Governor Newsom then posts the following.

Happy Friday.

Real men stand with workers, real patriots stand with unions.

Then, in response to Donald Trump posting AI videos of Russ Vote, author of Project 2025, who now leads Donald Trump's Office of Management and Budget, aka Donald Trump's hatchet man, who's out there destroying critical programs that Americans rely on.

Donald Trump posted an image of Russ Vote as the grim reaper holding a bag of cash.

In other words, taking away people's money and hard-earned livings here in the United States.

Governor Newsom posts, oh, looks like Tom Homan, Trump's Borders are, found his $50,000.

Of course, that's in reference to Donald Trump's Borders Are.

Tom Homan back in 2024 taking $50,000 in cash in a restaurant bag.

And Tom Homan says, that's just how I take my money to do consulting.

It wasn't a quid pro quo to funnel government contracts to Donald Trump.

That's how I run my business, Cash in restaurant bags.

Sure, Tom Omen.

Governor Newsom then posts the following as well.

Maybe it's because they shut down the government in response to NBC News writing.

The U.S.

government is shut down and Americans are more inclined to blame.

President Trump and Republicans for it, according to four independent national polls, it's actually now eight national polls all show by overwhelming numbers.

Americans blame Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.

Americans aren't stupid.

Americans are not buying what Trump is selling, that the Affordable Care Act plan and Medicaid and Medicare are supporting unlawful migrants or undocumented migrants.

Not a single dollar of federal funds is allowed to go to undocumented migrants.

That's just what the law is.

And people are on Affordable Care Act plans or Medicaid.

They know they need this for their health care.

They're aware that if the Affordable Care Act subsidies are not extended, that their premiums are going to go up two, two, three, four times.

They're paying $300, $400 a month.

They may be paying $2,000 a month very soon.

So they're aware.

And Donald Trump is so out of touch with the American people that he and his MAGA oligarchs don't understand that people need health care to live.

Governor Newsom then posts, I just signed legislation allowing 800,000 rideshare workers in California to unionize.

California is determined to give working people a voice, to give them choice, to give them them dignity, and give them a say about their future.

Governor Newsom posts, California dominates in the fields of quantum technology and fusion research, and we refuse to let go of that advantage.

The legislation I signed at UC Berkeley will help power the golden state to forefront of these extraordinary technologies.

Then Governor Newsom posts and responds to MAGA Mike Johnson responding to Fox saying, but you do realize these Affordable Care Act subsidies are going to expire, right, MAGA Mike?

And MAGA Mike responds, the answer is not to grow government and further subsidize insurance companies.

As Governor Newsom says, translation, I don't give a shit is what MAGA Mike Johnson's saying.

I'm raising the prices of your health care and kicking you off because Donald Trump told me to kick you off of your health care plan.

Now, let me bring you into Governor Newsom's press conferences, as I told you at the outset.

Here he is in uc berkeley and here he says republicans are lying to the american people about the government shutdown it's shameful and they know it but watch how governor newsom just handles the press how he handles this issue it's pitch perfect here play this clip i don't think a shutdown advantages anybody so i hope we can find compromise it's difficult to do that with a guy who was more interested in playing golf over the weekend Do you think Democrats should golf?

Continue.

Democrats should be not only

he played golf all the weekend after canceling a meeting with Senate Democrats.

The president of the United States canceled a meeting with the leaders

in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, and then felt it was more important hours before a shutdown to play golf.

And then, rather than having a serious meeting, decided to troll those leaders with a Trump 2028 hat that he put on the resolute desk and sent out a tweet after he sent out an AI video doctored with a racist video of Speaker Jeffries in a sombrero.

These are not serious people.

Then Governor Newsom further talks about all of Donald Trump's lies.

He goes, Trump's lying.

Johnson's lying.

They're lying.

They're liars.

It's shameful, period, full stop.

Here, play this clip.

What the president is saying, he's lying.

Speaker Johnson's lying.

They're lying to the American people.

It's shameful.

Period, full stop.

They know that.

I mean, they can't even hide that fact.

You can see their physiology and almost a smile on their face when they suggest that.

So I reject the premise of their assertions.

Period, full stop.

Can you explain how it's different for medical?

States have the ability to do what states do.

independent of the federal

contributions.

And so they're completely, I mean, what they're, I guess they're trying to connect their displeasure with what california and many other states do

with state resources in this space um and that is a very separate conversation it's a separate topic it has nothing to do with their assertions in relationship to the government shutdown this fall poncho's got you covered with classics like denim and flannels to new styles like the western polo and tough thread comfortable durable and versatile for whatever the season brings my favorite thing about poncho's denim shirt is it has just just the right amount of stretch to move with you.

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Then here we have Governor Newsom from his press conference talking about

he was late to the speech, slightly late to the speech at UC Berkeley, but he was saying, let me explain to you where I was and what I was doing.

He goes, California supports labor.

We support people who are working in the gig economy, and we don't want to leave our workers behind.

So in California, this is a part of our pride here.

Play this clip.

It was a few minutes late, and I think it

bookmarks this moment, if I may, just point a personal privilege.

We're a few minutes late because we're with members of SCIU International.

I just signed a bill today around gig workers.

It has the prospect of organizing up to 800,000 members in the gig economy into the union to give them voice, to give them choice, give them dignity, and a say about their future.

I say that because it needs to be said.

I'm not naive about how people are feeling about their future.

I'm not naive about the anxiety and stress that not just marks this moment, but frankly has marked decades where people feel they're being left behind, that they don't have a voice, they're not being seen, they're not being heard.

And I imagine in a press conference like this, when we're talking about the future, we're talking about fusion, we're talking about quantum, it may feel a little alienating, even more so to some people, because they don't necessarily see their future attached to it.

And that's why I was very proud to attach my signature to that bill today and build on the work we're trying to do here in the state of California to reconcile the fact that

two-thirds of the wealth in this country is in the hands of just 10% of people.

Those 10% of people are about half of our consumer spending.

The imbalance,

and I referenced Pericles in my comments a moment ago, the imbalance between the rich and the poor, as Pericles said, is the most, well, it's the oldest and the most fatal ailment of all republics.

He said that over 2,200 years ago, warning the Athenians

about that reality.

And I say that to punctuate

that point and how proud I am that we are pointing our North Star towards actually trying to address that issue.

Yes, with the organizational efforts that we just advanced today with gig workers, the work we've done to organize the first bargaining unit of its type in the child care space in this country, the fact that we proudly provided minimum wage for healthcare workers at $25, the highest in the nation, and proudly did the same.

for those folks that are working full-time and struggling to make ends meet in the fast food sector as well at $20.

Those are points of pride, as it is an extension of point of privilege to sign these two bills, connecting that dot.

It's about growth and inclusion.

Growth and inclusion.

And I'm very proud to be part of this inclusive community here at UC Berkeley.

And then Governor Newsom talks about how proud he is of the UC university system in California, how proud he is of UC Berkeley, of UCLA, how California is focused on building quantum technologies and focused on the future while Donald Trump's trying to bring us backwards.

Here, play this clip.

To be here with people

that aren't just the best and the brightest, but truly represent the best and the brightest around the globe.

It was amazing to walk in the labs downstairs and to see the world here, UC Berkeley.

just reflect on the wrecking ball of policymaking that's going on 1600 miles away and h-1b visas and issues around around academic freedom um

the assault that we are experiencing and i think about how precious

this place is this moment is

and i think about our relationship to it and the imperative of continuing to maintain our leadership at the same time we maintain our values and i guess that's the long-winded point and so i'm very proud of the work this legislature has done this year.

I'm very proud of the work we're doing and continue to do to dominate infusion and quantum.

I am not naive, as Buffy suggests,

that if you don't invest in the future, you're not going to do very well there.

And that we have to invest in our lead.

California is sort of infamous of dominating sectors and then, frankly, resting on our laurels.

I'm not naive about what Illinois and Connecticut have been doing in the quantum space.

I'm not naive about the investments others are making.

Success, after all, leaves clues.

And so that's really the spirit of these two bills.

It's to build off, as Didi said, this dominance in terms of access to capital.

Two-thirds of the venture capital in this space coming through the state of California dominate in terms of our conveyor belts for talent, which is our research institutions and the partnerships with Lawrence Berkeley labs, Lawrence Livermore Labs, as it relates to that 2022 landmark fusion moment.

Not even a moment.

What

You know the

nano of a nanosecond,

but what it represents.

And,

you know, we say it all the time, future happens here first.

We're America's coming attraction.

We are in the future business.

That's what separates the gameplay here from the game played everywhere else in California.

And it's precious.

And in closing, it's because we have a formula for success.

It didn't happen by chance.

And that conveyor belt for talent, it's about investing in that conveyor belt for talent.

These universities, best in class.

And I'm surprised the chancellor left without bragging once again.

You see Berkeley,

finest public university in the United States of America.

As the president suggested, this system has no peers.

More active patents.

coming out of this system than any other public university system on planet Earth.

This is just extraordinary, extraordinary that it's happening here in our state.

And so to all those extraordinary people that make it happen, I'm proud and privileged to be able to send a message to all of you and to the private sector, to our partners that we worked with so closely to create a quantum science and engineering complex down at UCLA in Southern California, where the state invested hundreds of millions of dollars to partner with immunology and immunotherapy to advance those disciplines in concert and in partnership to look at cross-polonization and collaboration to stack all of these disciplines and bring people of all walks of life together.

That's what these two bills do.

It builds on all of that, provides resources and maintains that North Star of a resourceful mindset.

And I think sends a signal that we believe the best is yet to come.

Then finally, Governor Newsom posts this.

Mike Littleman Johnson can't even keep the government open.

Kevin can't count McCarthy, failed speaker, and all the pathetic henchmen are spending millions to stop Prop 50 and help Trump rig elections.

Watch this video that Governor Newsom posted as he calls MAGA Mike Johnson Mike Littleman Johnson here.

Play this clip.

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