The disagreement between Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump amid the LA wildfires continues, with the previous hitting again after the president-elect known as him “Newscum.”
For context, Trump has taken purpose on the California governor for his dealing with of the wildfires at present ravaging Los Angeles County. In a Reality Social publish on Jan. 9, Trump addressed Newsom as “Newscum” and mentioned he was “the blame for” the unfolding pure catastrophe. He additionally baselessly claimed that Newsom had didn’t signal a water restoration declaration, and mentioned the fires have been the results of the state’s efforts to guard a nearly-extinct species of fish known as smelt.
Now, Newsom is hitting again at Trump’s nickname (which is sort of as weak as “Tampon Tim”), recalling in a current press convention how the identical identify was given to him in seventh grade. “Newscum,” he mentioned, “I keep in mind the man on Baltimore Avenue who known as me ‘Newscum,’ I used to be in seventh grade.” The governor accomplished his ideas — which provided a mic drop second so intense you possibly can nonetheless hear it ricochetting — by assuring that he “can deal with” Trump’s taunts, and elaborated in an X publish that, regardless of Trump’s efforts on the contrary, the LA pure catastrophe “isn’t about me.”
“It’s concerning the folks we characterize,” Newsom wrote, “and the help they deserve.” It marks the latest time that Newsom has known as out Trump’s makes an attempt to distract from the urgency of the catastrophe by creating politicized firestorms of his personal. In response to Trump’s Reality Social publish earlier this month, Newsom’s communications director, Izzy Gardon, mentioned the governor is “centered on defending folks, not taking part in politics, and ensuring firefighters have all of the sources they want.” Later, Newsom himself mentioned “this man desires to politicize” the wildfires whereas “persons are actually fleeing” and have “misplaced their lives.”
It’s not the primary time the pair have gone toe-to-toe on this difficulty. In 2019, throughout that 12 months’s California wildfires, Trump and Newsom once more exchanged phrases on social media, with the latter saying Trump was “excused from this dialog” since he doesn’t “consider in local weather change.” After all, for some folks, each Newsom and Trump have been on the receiving finish of the blame sport as residents attempt to make sense of the present devastation.
For his half, Newsom was known as out by actuality star Kim Kardashian, who urged him to extend the pay earned by incarcerated firefighters battling the blaze, regardless of her household’s water utilization being known as into query. Newsom has predictably additionally caught the ire of far-right residents who’ve known as for him to resign whereas in the identical breath nonetheless wishing for Canada to be part of the US.
On the opposite finish of the spectrum, Trump himself has been held answerable for the wildfires, with Two and a Half Males star Jon Cryer calling out his hypocrisy whereas calling to thoughts the 2016 wildfires in Tennessee. In the meantime, for his half, The Younger and the Stressed star Eric Braeden described Trump as an “orange fool” whose response to the LA wildfires has been “outrageous” and “very damaging.”
These criticisms observe a resurfaced clip of Trump throughout his presidential marketing campaign, through which he appeared to be extra involved by the price of wildfires than the human and environmental destruction that they trigger. If there’s something worthy of the ‘scum’ label, it’s that.
