Trump hits Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris with brutal one-two punch at White House Correspondents Association Dinner
President Trump turned California’s two biggest Democratic stars into the punchline Friday night, unloading on Gov.Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris during a joke-filled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner speech.Trump mocked Newsom’s 2028 White House ambitions by claiming the governor had doomed himself with praise for Harris.“Gavin Newsom has come out and said he will not be running for president, because nobody can say what he said about himself and survive,” Trump quipped.
“Newsom was in big trouble when he openly admitted that Kamala was smarter than him,” he continued.“If Kamala is smarter than someone, you don’t want that person to be President of the United States of America.”Trump has repeatedly used the line after the governor previously discussed his dyslexia and the challenges of reading from prepared remarks.The jabs come as Harris has opened an early lead in the race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.
New polling shows the former vice president holds a significant advantage over Newsom and the rest of the field, leading by comfortable margins across the 14 most recent major polls.Trump continued to tear into the California governor.“I heard Gavin Newscum recently said we will lose our country if we don’t fight fire with fire,” Trump said before taking aim at Newsom’s handling of California’s devastating wildfires.“To be fair, there’s only one thing we know about Gavin, and that’s that he definitely doesn’t want to fight fire with water.”The president also blasted California’s policies, claiming the state is “enabling wildfires, paying drug addicts to be homeless, giving free sex changes to illegals, and telling rich people they’re going to take away, all your money is going to be taken away.”The final remark referenced California’s controversial billionaire tax, which is set to appear on the November ballot.“People are fleeing, they’re fleeing in droves ...