California Governor Gavin Newsom is throwing political haymakers, threatening to “punch” Donald Trump in the face while torching Texas Republicans over what he called “radical election rigging.”
According to Reuters, during a video press call with reporters, Newsom didn’t hold back when asked about Trump’s influence on the GOP. Brimming with frustration, the Democratic governor warned that America was “walking down a damn different path” under Trump’s watch. “It’s not about whether we play hardball anymore—it’s about how we play hardball,” Newsom said. Then came the jaw-dropper: “We are going to fight back and we’re going to punch this bully in the mouth.”
Triggered? pic.twitter.com/3PCyeuus3o
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 21, 2025
The metaphorical swing at Trump wasn’t a one-off. Newsom used the moment to frame himself as a fighter ready to push back against what he described as creeping authoritarianism. He accused Trump of bullying Republicans into submission and vowed that Democrats wouldn’t sit back while the rules of democracy were “vandalized.”
But it was on The Siren Podcast where Newsom turned his fire squarely on Texas Republicans. Pointing to their aggressive new redistricting plan, he scoffed at GOP lawmakers for falling in line behind Trump. “Look at these Republicans, cowering to this guy,” he said, referring to Trump. “Look at your Republican governor, used to claim to be a conservative. What a farce. Nothing conservative about this. By definition, nothing conservative about—this is radical rigging of a midterm election.”
Newsom didn’t let up, blasting Texas lawmakers for passing a congressional map that could hand the GOP as many as five new House seats. “Radical rigging of an election, destroying, vandalizing this democracy, the rule of law,” he continued. “So, I’m sorry, I know some people’s sensibilities. I respect and appreciate that, but right now, with all due respect, we’re walking down a damn different path.”
Keep it coming, @GOP.
We will keep winning. pic.twitter.com/PaSAbWbEYQ
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 21, 2025
The governor made it clear he wasn’t mincing words anymore. “We’re fighting fire with fire, and we’re gonna punch these sons of b—-es in the mouth,” he said, leaving no doubt about how he views the GOP’s power grab.
His fury comes just as Texas Republicans advance their controversial redistricting plan, which passed the state House on Wednesday and heads to the Senate. If successful, the map could shift multiple seats into GOP hands ahead of next year’s midterms. Democrats across the country are fuming, calling it an outright attempt to lock in Trump-aligned power.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul joined the chorus, blasting the move as a “last gasp of a desperate party clinging to power.” She accused Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott of delivering a “rigged map” because “they can’t win on their record of stripping health care, tanking the economy and making families pay more with less.”
For Newsom, the fight is both national and personal. With whispers of a possible presidential run in his future, his scorched-earth rhetoric positions him as a Democratic brawler, unafraid to take direct swings at both Trump and his Republican allies.
Whether this helps him cement his image as the Democrats’ toughest fighter or risks turning off more cautious voters remains to be seen. But one thing is clear, Newsom has no intention of pulling his punches.
The thing is
Gavin Newsom really is destroying California
Only people addicted to liberal propaganda can’t see it
And how is that?
Even liberal media is discussing the fact that the greatest Exodus from any state, fleeing the relentless vandalism, burglary, violent crime, the increased power of transnational street gangs in communities, violent homeless, violent criminal illegal
The massive escalation in the cost of everything, the result of violence, green energy scams, exploitation of working Californians to support criminal illegals and massive welfare programs
I struggle to pay my bills living next to people fraudulently getting welfare that pays for everything
Defunding law enforcement and fire fighting
Closing small businesses, closing shopping centers and malls, large corporations leaving in California
The greatest exodus in America
Massive increase in the cost of living in California, the result of crime, violence, you can’t even get vehicle or home insurance in many areas
Massive increases in the cost of everything in California
We have no NO GO ZONES in Los Angeles
Areas where USPS and Amazon won’t deliver because they’re so violent
We have mob shoplifting, violent street gang takeovers of communities and the police don’t show up
Read this article, which state does the person who wrote it live in?
The People’s Republic of San Francisco?
San Francisco has the second highest exodus, after Los Angeles
Who wants to live where corrupt politicians are stealing from responsible citizens to support criminal illegals, free everything for violent “homeless” every immigrant who shows up because they don’t want to fix the problems in their own nation, and violent radical groups are financially supported by corrupt politicians
Destroying our once great California communities
TO MAKE THEMSELVES RICH
liberal California legislators living like kings
The French Laundry doesn’t give a damn about the American middle class or lower middle class
we lose our businesses, our property, the success of generations, our lives
all of it engineered by liberal media platforms
like CNN, MSNBC, paid for it?
by BILLIONAIRE globalist oligarchs promoting their own agenda
For one thing we voted for Trump and another thing the reason you guys got voted into your positions was that weird voting system that set up that even happened in Alaska that murkowski got voted in and people that didn’t need to be voted in got voted in illegally that needs to be changed because the majority didn’t book them in and I bet if you look it up right that’s how it’s going to look in every single one of those States you guys don’t know how to govern anything look at Newsome I mean he’s wasted all that money in California bought himself a 9 million dollar mansion but californiaans can’t live they have no water they have no High-Speed Rail the homeless don’t have a place to live oh yeah all that money where did it go oh yeah there’s a $9 million dollar mansion that the governor lives in and miss Nancy Pelosi how is she living in that gated community she’s got yeah California is really taking care of real good isn’t it and you guys voted that I don’t think so