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Fox News commentator Dana Perino has finally had enough. “You have to use Twitter to stop it,” she told the CEO. “I don't know where his wife is,” she ignited. “If I were his wife, I would say, ‘You’re fooling yourself!’ Stop it!’” She went on to point out that his work was big and he had to “be more serious.”
It's really gratifying to see someone on the flagship magazine network Fox who is totally bored by the teenage social media behavior of the state politician. In addition to the CEO in this case, U.S. President Donald Trump is the governor of California, Gavin Newsom.
Newsom drags Trump away on social media by imitating his weird rants, strange capital and feelings for exclamation marks. He also posted several memes that are nose parodies of things Trump has provided for his followers for years. Politico recently summarized some of Newsom's activities on social media:
There is news on Mount Rushmore. Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and an angelic winged Hulk Hogan prayed for the news. All Hats have news magazine posts, and he said his mid-term re-division proposal led to “many” calling him “Gavin Christopher Columbus’ Newsom (because the map!). Thank you for your attention on this matter.”
Newsom was getting closer to Trump's perfection in a post yesterday, and it was nearly impossible to say it compared to the actual outbreak of the president:
What's wrong with the cookie barrel? Keep your beautiful logo! ! ! New look like Walmart's cheap Velveeta “cheese”, which is the place for “grocery” (an old-fashioned term)! ! !
Some of these Gibbs are clumsy, but many are well-made and even fun, despite the disturbing fact that the person the governor imitates is the commander-in-chief. The evidence proved that his supporters responded in real anger. Perhaps Newsom feels irony is always more effective than name calls. Mango Mussolini or Cheeto Jesus (both referring to the president's abnormal skin color) attracted only Trump's opponents. But a post that perfectly mimics Trump’s antics is a mirror – prompting people to consider Trump’s appearance to everyone else in the world.
At least, Newsom's double standards of Trump's deep concern in both the national media and the public took a direct blow to the double standard of Trump's behavior, which is only part of Trump's sht's foot, something that cannot be occupied by some aspects of his personality. Too many journalists turn to Trump's sanity, forcing his weird remarks to somehow pass by picking occasional phrases or policy-related sentences or sentences while ignoring his hatred for the shark and his Stalin threat to his political enemy. Newsom's parody evades all manual criticisms about the president's actions: instead, they show rather than explain, and what it feels when Trump acts in the way Trump acts.
Perino is just one of many people in high school. Newsom's response to Perino was ace: “Dana'ding dong'Perino (to this day, she has never heard of her!)” Vice President JD Vance slammed Newsom, telling Fox that the Californian attack did not land because his trolls ignored his trolls” because he ignored the basic political success of President Trump, which was his identity justice”; in other words, everyone knew Newsom's Crackpot Hijinks were fake, but Trump was real, and it was a weird defense.
Of course, social media and Maga posters on Facebook flew out of the handle in anger. (Newsom is “mental breakdown”, says a Maga influencer, without traces of irony.) It turns out that the people who pioneered the slogan “Fuck your feelings” are impossible to be delicate souls.
Others take attitudes to criticize the news for pain rather than anger. “I'm all appreciating Crass' humor,” said lawyer and Maga Social Media Stalwart. “I love South Park. It's fun.” (One wonders she's been watching the show lately.) “But don't just be a loser to copy the most powerful person in the world.” Trump summed up this new seriousness among the president's supporters at Sean Hannity's Majordomo, when he tututted the “performing confrontational style” of Newsom, adding: “Maybe it won your metrics with the lo-strait radical base in your party,” but it won't win the election. Refreshingly: Fox commentators and leaders in the Trump administration agree that politicians should not hold themselves in public like a dim, unbearable child.
They are all close to getting it.
I admit I feel ambivalent about Newsom's approach. A few years ago, I wrote that Trump’s opponents, especially those who are addicts to terms such as Drumpf, Drumpf, The Orange Kenace, Cadet Bone Maspurs, and others who need to act like adults, convey the severity of their concerns about Trump, rather than treating his name like an irrelevant Boob or an all-knowing werewolf. The same is true for liberals online, referring to “Rethuglicans” and “Republickkans”, which is uncomfortable with right-wingers in media using baby grand slams like Demonrats and killary.
One aspect of Newsom's parody made me laugh: he posted photos in the style of an artist and in the style of Trump's admirer Jon McNaughton, a capable illustrator, but his paintings are weird. They are an illusion mashup of Grant Wood and medieval portraits, where Trump takes a world like Atlas, either blessed by a dead president, or saved the Constitution from dazzling liberals. (The image of the news magazine with the late Hulk Hogan is so perfect that at first I thought it was created by McNaughton himself.) Trump supporters seem to like the photos. Newsom shows how weird they are.
Newsom put forward his point of view and should move forward. But his lasting achievement is to reveal that Trump supporters are less impermeable to reality than the president's opponents believe. I doubt – I have been sensitive to Trump’s criticism since Trump announced his first campaign a decade ago because many of them know it. They know that many of Trump’s remarks are offensive and out of touch with reality. They know Trump's character is disorderly. They know that the president is embarrassed every day for his party and his country.
For years, these magazines have adopted various strategies to prevent the pain of cognitive dissonance. They resort to the “about that” argument against other politicians. They claim that Trump actually knows what he is doing, or that they understand the information below all the broken thoughts, garbled and dead-end sentences. Now, Newsom is forcing them to see what Trump looks like in the distorted power field created without Trump’s acting skills and his aggressively providing incoherent statements.
Think about it, maybe Maga World isn't close to it. Maybe they did understand, maybe that's why this time, they were particularly angry.