Gavin Newsom has apparently decided that if you can’t beat the ALL CAPS aesthetic, you might as well steal it from the Mar-a-Lago bathroom stall and make it your own. In a fiery holiday message that reads like it was typed with one hand while the other held Donald Trump by the scruff of his neck against a wall, the Governor of California called the POTUS a “seriously demented piggie” who has “cozied up to dictators” and made America weak.
Newsom and Trump have a long history of exchanging barbs, and neither man has ever shown much interest in pulling their punches. Yet we’ve come a long way since the polite jabs of the president’s first tenure. It feels like yesterday when Trump accused the governor of doing a terrible job managing California’s forests, and Newsom, delivering the political equivalent of a maitre d’ showing someone to the exit, simply said: “You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.”
