Gavin Newsom appears to like goofing on President Donald Trump and his allies. The California governor’s images and wisecracks on social media give the Republicans a style of their very own medication and maintain the Democrat within the information as he probably weighs a 2028 presidential bid.
However on Sunday, Newsom was all enterprise in slapping down Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) for his or her feedback concerning the suspicious deadly shootings in Minneapolis by federal brokers.
First, Newsom responded to Vance’s anecdote about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, together with Customs and Border Safety officers being locked in a restaurant by protesters earlier than fellow federal brokers got here to assist.
“That is only a style of what’s occurring in Minneapolis as a result of state and native officers refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement,” Vance wrote on X. “They’ve created the chaos to allow them to have moments like yesterday, the place somebody tragically dies and politicians get to grandstand concerning the evils of implementing the border. The answer is staring everybody within the face. I hope authorities in Minneapolis cease this insanity.”
Yeah, Newsom wasn’t shopping for that one.
“Solely a real psychopath might genuinely imagine this story justifies the taking pictures of an harmless VA nurse,” he wrote, referring to Alex Pretti.
Pretti was the second protester shot useless in Minneapolis this month by federal officers deployed by the Trump administration. The earlier sufferer was Renee Good.
Administration officers claimed the killings had been justified and called the two terrorists, however video and witness accounts put that assertion in critical doubt.
Cotton took an identical tack to the veep.
“The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are regrettable tragedies,” the Arkansas Republican wrote. “They may’ve been averted—& additional unrest might be averted—if state & native officers work with federal regulation enforcement and cease encouraging civilians to intervene. There might be no mob veto on implementing the regulation.”
Newsom clapped again exhausting.
“Your state has the seventh highest murder fee within the nation — over double California’s,” he wrote. “Spare us the grandstanding over ‘implementing the regulation’— you’re a heartless fraud.”
It’s unclear precisely which research the governor was referring to, though 2023 knowledge published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2025 reveals Arkansas with a murder fee of 11.3 per 100,000 folks, greater than double that of California at 5.1.
Correction: This text has been corrected to notice Sen. Tom Cotton represents Arkansas.
