President-elect Trump shouldn’t be thrilled with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aggressive, extremely seen marketing campaign to defend California from the Trump White Home.
“Governor Gavin Newscum is making an attempt to KILL our Nation’s lovely California,” Trump wrote on his Reality Social account on Friday, along with his oft-used nickname for the state’s Democratic governor.
Trump’s submit got here someday after the governor convened a particular session of the state Legislature to arrange for potential Republican-led assaults on abortion rights, environmental protections and catastrophe funding within the liberal state.
Trump wrote that Newsom “is utilizing the time period ‘Trump-Proof’ as a manner of stopping all the GREAT issues that may be executed to ‘Make California Nice Once more,’ however I simply overwhelmingly gained the Election.”
Newsom’s preemptive strike indicators the return of the hostile relationship between Democratic-controlled California and the Trump administration.
In a video tackle to small donors and supporters Friday afternoon, Newsom stated Trump’s criticism felt acquainted.
“It’s a drained, previous playbook of grievances. No prescriptions. No options. Simply grievances,” he stated.
The governor’s proclamation for the largely symbolic particular session says his administration anticipates that Trump may search to restrict entry to abortion remedy, pursue a nationwide abortion ban, dismantle environmental protections, repeal the Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals program, and withhold federal catastrophe response funding, amongst different guarantees he made in the course of the marketing campaign.
Newsom is asking lawmakers to supply further funding to the California Division of Justice and different businesses in his administration to right away file lawsuits and defend towards litigation from the Trump administration.
The governor’s aides stated will increase to the state’s authorized protection could be paid for with revenue tax revenues which have exceeded projections within the present fiscal 12 months, however the quantity of funding can be decided in negotiations on the state Capitol. The particular session is ready to start Dec. 2.
The president-elect on Reality blasted the “INSANE POLICY DECISIONS” of California’s Democratic leaders, blaming them for folks fleeing the costly state. (State knowledge present that, final 12 months, California’s inhabitants elevated by 0.17% after three years of losses.)
“They’re making it inconceivable to construct a fairly priced automotive, the unchecked and unbalanced homeless disaster, & the price of EVERYTHING, particularly ‘groceries,’ IS OUT OF CONTROL,” Trump wrote.
Trump’s social media submit included a promise to demand voter identification and proof of citizenship to be able to forged ballots. This fall, Newsom signed a regulation that bans native governments from imposing voter identification necessities.
The president-elect additionally criticized the “rerouting of MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER A DAY FROM THE NORTH OUT INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, slightly than utilizing it, freed from cost, for the cities, cities, & farms dotted all all through California.”
Talking at his Rancho Palos Verdes golf membership in September, Trump indicated he would revive his first-term struggle with California leaders over water allocations and environmental legal guidelines meant to guard endangered fish such because the tiny delta smelt.
He stated he would “revert water up into the hills the place you have got all of the lifeless forests, the place the forests are so brittle” to be able to stop wildfires. And he threatened to withhold federal firefighting help for California except “Newscum” agreed to “signal these papers” — an obvious reference to water coverage, though he didn’t specify which papers.
In an interview days earlier than the election, the governor forged Trump’s “Newscum” nickname for him as a win.
“We clearly are in his head and that’s a superb factor, from my perspective,” Newsom stated. “It means we’re doing the precise factor.”
Although Trump and Newsom sparred on social media, within the press and the courts in the course of the president-elect’s first time period, their relationship wasn’t all the time fraught. The governor publicly praised Trump on a number of events for offering federal help for California wildfires. And Trump additionally used a clip of Newsom commending him for sending COVID-19 testing swabs to California in an advert throughout his 2020 presidential marketing campaign.
The pair maintained a cordial relationship behind the scenes, nevertheless it seems to have ended.
In his video tackle Friday, Newsom thanked the individuals who tuned in — 35,000 in whole, he stated — for his or her work to assist elect Democrats in 2024.
He stated he respects the presidency and needs Trump to succeed. However he’s not naive in regards to the president-elect’s agenda.
“We all know the playbook,” Newsom stated. “He’s going to be extra, I feel, aggressive than he was previously.”
The particular session is about getting ready, the governor stated, as he hinted that he has different strikes up his sleeve.
“We’re not executed by any stretch,” Newsom stated.
