New: Bed Bath and Beyond Exec. Chairman Levels Gavin Newsom, Nails Exactly Why He's Not POTUS Material

Though no official (nor unofficial) announcement has been made, it's pretty clear that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wants to run for president in 2028.

To be sure, it's probably something he's always had his eye on, back to his early days of holding public office in San Francisco, which started in 1996. But it's something that became especially clear during Joe Biden's failed presidency, where Newsom tried to set himself up around 2023 or so to be the Democrats' 2024 "backup plan," visiting countries all over the world and knocking small children down on Chinese basketball courts in the process.

These days, however, Newsom seems to think the path to the White House involves simultaneously trying to mock and emulate President Trump's social media strategy while copying him on issues like battling crime and homelessness, the latter of which Newsom has been vowing to eradicate since 2003 but has failed to.

Another strategy that Newsom apparently thinks is a "winning" one is in ridiculing businesses that have had the audacity not only to flee the Golden State but to publicly call for dialogue and change. This is something Bed Bath and Beyond Executive Chairman Marcus Lemonis did in August, issuing a statement noting how it was "nearly impossible" to do business in California anymore, and that amid an attempted brick-and-mortar store comeback in other states, California customers could still shop with them via their website.

As we reported at the time, Newsom and his moonbatty comms/social media teams chose to respond by trying to belittle Lemonis, with Newsom tweeting, "The company that already went bankrupt and closed every store across the country two years ago? Ok." His press office account scribbled, "After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed, Bath & Beyond no longer existed. We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a 2nd store."

Though Lemonis sounded off at the time in the aftermath of Newsom's attempted social media kweening, he took it even further during a Fox Across America interview Tuesday, nailing one big reason Newsom was unfit for higher office:

Here’s what I was hoping happened. I tried to take a real high road, really an intellectual approach with the governor. And I didn’t actually name him in the statement. I didn’t call him out for anything. I just said it’s expensive to do business there. What I would have anticipated is a governor of a state, as he likes to tell me several times, the fourth largest economy in the world, would have said, 'Hey, listen, Marcus, what you’re saying is nonsense. I don’t agree with you. I’m not gonna spend time with you because you’re an idiot, but I’m gonna assign a staff member just somebody talk about it at all.'
Instead, what I got back was snark and sarcasm, and quite frankly, a high level of immaturity. If you’re seeking an extra, if you’re seeking an office that’s higher than the governorship, you have to be willing to have conversations with people from foreign countries, from domestic businesses, private citizens, willing to talk about things that you may not necessarily agree with. He doesn’t wanna do that, and for me, it was a fait accompli for him.

Watch:

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Bed Bath and Beyond Executive Chairman Marcus Lemonis demolishes Gavin Newsom, saying he is immature and calling out his inability to have a difficult conversation pic.twitter.com/uPVWCgQfM5
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) September 4, 2025

Bingo. And not only that, but Newsom himself has said in so many words in the past that people who continuously say they are going to do something about California's issues but who consistently fail at it don't deserve to be in elected office:

“People are done. If we don’t deal with this, we don’t deserve to be in office,” ⁦@CAgovernor⁩ ⁦@GavinNewsom⁩ said, tearing into a rancid, garbage-strewn campsite on state property under Interstate 10 in Los Angeles. https://t.co/NDg6dWsgdo via @NYTimes
— Shawn Hubler (@ShawnHubler) August 9, 2024