California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) mocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump in a post on the social platform X on Sunday amid tension between the governor and the Trump administration over protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

In response to a Sunday post on X from Hegseth featuring a screenshot of another post from Trump on his Truth Social platform congratulating the National Guard for doing a “great job” in Los Angeles following “two days of violence, clashes and unrest,” Newsom mocked Hegseth and Trump as “smart guys.”

“Smart guys running the operation. The National Guard wasn’t even deployed on the ground when Trump posted this. Pete Hegseth runs the Pentagon as well as he throws an axe on a Fox News set,” Newsom said in his own X post on Sunday, referencing a 2015 incident in which a man was struck by an axe tossed by Hegseth.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    He’s opposition but controlled opposition IMO. If he wins the Presidency at best we’ll “pause” our slide into fascism.

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      9 days ago

      Not even, just like we lost abortion under Biden, and an entire generation lost faith in the democrats as a means to effect positive social change, Newsom would do more to kill any opposition than Trump.

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        We lost abortion under Trump. Trying to blame Biden for that is ridiculous.

        It was based on supreme court nominations.

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          Biden could have packed the court, but said “it would make it political forever”. Tge commander-in-chief could have ordered military hospitals to provide women’s healthcare, he could have told the AG abd everyone else he nominated to pressure/punish red states which ban abortion. Strom Thurmond’s friend, who split with the party to end desegregstion, chose to let the Republicans do this, because he does not want what we want.