President Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom engaged in a hostile social media exchange over the rebuilding of Los Angeles County’s fire-ravaged housing market, with the president complaining about the state’s recovery plans and the governor’s office accusing Trump of having dementia.
On Tuesday, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: “Shockingly, I have just learned, that Gavin Newscum, the Governor of California, is in final stages of approval to build Low Income Housing in Pacific Palisades. How unfair is that to the people that have suffered so much! Newscum allowed their houses to burn by not accepting Hundreds of Millions of Gallons of Water from the Pacific Northwest, and now, the Low Income Housing starts rising long before he gets Permits for California Citizens to rebuild, but long after the Federal Permits were issued.”
Trump continued, “Lee Zeldin, EPA Administrator, and I, as President, have done the job, and produced all Permits long before anybody expected that to happen. Unfortunately, the Governor of California and Mayor Karen Bass failed you. Gavin Newscum’s plan to build Low Income Housing (at the Super Luxury Pacific Palisades Fire Site) is what caused the destruction of the Late, Great New York City Mayor John Lindsay’s Political Career — and John Lindsay was a Republican.”
Trump’s message generated a response from the Gov. Newsom Press Office page on X that said, “Take your dementia meds, grandpa. You are making things up again.” The post also included an infographic that sought to dispute the multiple points raised in the Trump post.
In a separate post, the Gov. Newsom Press office stated, “We ratio’d the pathological liar in the White House (AGAIN!). Thoughts and prayers for the low IQ President.”
The president, who is on a state visit to the UK, did not immediately respond to the Newsom messages.
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