- By calling Stephen Miller a “cuck” and posting photos of President Trump with child molester Jeffrey Epstein, Gov. Gavin Newsom is adopting a much more aggressive social media strategy.
- The governor defended the more combative posture, saying he’s speaking the only language Trump and his supporters understand.
- The approach is winning the attention of social media users and support from some Democrats, but he also runs the risk of offending people who miss respectable political discourse.
SACRAMENTO — In a common insult the Trump administration uses against dissidents of federal policy, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called a California judge a “communist” after she blocked roving immigration arrests based on race alone.
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The MAGA-embraced epithet from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s official press office in response, however, was hardly typical for a Democratic politician.
“This fascist cuck in DC continues his assault on democracy and the Constitution, and his attempt to replace the sovereignty of the people with autocracy,” the California governor’s office posted on social media. “Sorry the Constitution hurt your feelings, Stephen. Cry harder.”
Popular among the far right and the gutters of social media, the term is used to insult liberals as weak and is also short for “cuckold,” which refers to the husband of an unfaithful wife.
The low blow sanctioned by a potential 2028 presidential candidate set a new paradigm for the political left that has long embraced Michelle Obama’s “when they go low, we go high” motto to rise above the callousness of Trump and his acolytes.
It’s also an example of Newsom’s more aggressive social media strategy.
This week the governor posted memes of Trump with child molester and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Shortly after the Department of Homeland Security detained and handcuffed U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla at a news conference in June, state Assemblymember Joe Patterson (R-Rockland) alleged on X that he would be treated the same way if he interrupted an event held by the governor.
“I’d politely ask you to leave,” retorted Newsom’s communications director, Izzy Gardon. “Though you do not deserve politeness in this moment for this grotesque tweet, you bald little man.” (Patterson later added “Bald little man” to his profile on the social media site.)
Newsom has never been a taker of the “high” road unless it support alcohol or pot.
He has been and always will be a bottom feeder and a nasty politician. He learned how to gut people while smiling in their face.
Want to bet San Fran Nan will be there showing him how to negotiate low life politics?
What a joke….. he needs more hair gel.
Right, when you can’t win any argument against the President’s policies, resort to the high school bully-trick: name-calling, the more crude the better. I won’t say the crude words I can think describe Newsom very well…
In case you missed it, your old orange buddy uses the same childish language over and over and has been doing this for years. That’s all his junior high school brain can muster. But’s it’s ok, he lies to you flat out and you believe anything he says. Keep up the cult and try to watch something other then fox news…
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