Gavin Newsom Finds His Sharpest Weapon: Satire

Forget policy podcasts. His biting parody of Trump is energizing the base in ways nothing else has.

By Andrew Kordik

In a recent post on X, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Press Office account wrote, “DONALD IS FINISHED — HE IS NO LONGER ‘HOT.’ FIRST THE HANDS (SO TINY) AND NOW ME — GAVIN C. NEWSOM — HAVE TAKEN AWAY HIS ‘STEP.’ MANY ARE SAYING HE CAN’T EVEN DO THE ‘BIG STAIRS’ ON AIR FORCE ONE ANYMORE — USES THE LITTLE BABY STAIRS NOW. SAD!” He con…