It felt like former President Joe Biden’s famous “Red Speech” circa September 2022, when he told a Philadelphia crowd that “equality and democracy are under assault” and that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
The stage was bathed in dramatic, dark-red hues reminiscent of fascist regimes. Like, say, the Nazis.
As I wrote at the time, it was a “foaming, vitriolic, vengeful speech that seemed designed to pull our nation further apart and inflame the more than 73 million Americans who voted for his opponent in the last election.”
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California’s failed governor Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, picked a very special day to deliver his own spiteful, malignant view of America — the nation’s 250th birthday. His eight-minute July 4 speech on Saturday didn’t mention the widespread decline seen under his watch, nor the suffering his “progressive” policies have brought to the citizens of the Golden State (many of whom are leaving).
No, it was all about Trump, and how much he hates the man, even though the president is not responsible for the slow, agonizing death of California that has occurred under one-party Democratic rule:
On America's 250th birthday, we need a declaration of election independence.
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) July 4, 2026
Californians will use every power, every lawyer, every law, and every ounce of will to defend our democracy against any illegal order this president dares to issue.
This is a government of the people. pic.twitter.com/E79CtUvIxW
Instead of taking a day off from his endless grievance and hate politics, he thought this would be a good way to celebrate a historical milestone for our country and our people:
“The American people will go to the polls, and President Trump knows what’s coming,” Newsom said in his speech.
“And, because he knows that, he is afraid for himself. He doesn’t care about you, he doesn’t care about America, and he hardly cares about his own political party.”
Newsom shot multiple attacks at Trump for corruption, while the governor himself and his wife face probes from the federal Department of Justice.
“He has added more than $4 billion to his personal fortune while sitting in what is supposed to be a public trust. He told you he was going to drain the swamp, but he gave it a presidential suite,” Newsom said on Trump.
“He is degrading the concept of American self-government in a way that no king and no foreign power has ever managed to do,” the governor added.
There are just a couple of problems with his diatribe: Trump has been cleaning up D.C. and is making it safe again, stopping the tsunami of Biden-era illegal immigration, and showing that we actually can have nice things if we simply do things right. That’s directly in the face of the Democrat narrative that Newsom ascribes to, which is that decline is natural and good, and we should just let it happen.
The other problem that Gov. Hair Product has? His own house doesn’t appear to be so clean:
🚨🚨🚨
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) July 3, 2026
The FBI had an informant wearing a wire in June of 2024?!
Joe Biden started an investigation into @GavinNewsom?!
Lots of Democrats need to issue apologies. https://t.co/pjKPi3OK5N
Gavin Newsom when he found out his inside ally was wearing a wire. 🤣
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 3, 2026
The dude is toast. pic.twitter.com/SpsjAwSe3d
RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reports:
Whoa: A Sacramento Insider Wore a Wire in Dana Williamson/Gavin Newsom Probe
What a putrid display, Governor.
In my opinion, spoiled brat antics like this are one reason you’ll be flattened in the presidential run you’ve been planning for years instead of presiding over California and making life better here. As a resident of our once proud paradise of a state, I fervently pray that I’m right.
I’ve seen the devastation the progressive movement can wreak, and if he gets to the Oval Office, our 250-year-old experiment will be in serious peril.
Let’s make sure we don’t let that happen, America.
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