California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been on an all-caps roll lately trolling the Trump White House. In a series of cap-locked Truth Social-like screeds, Newsom’s press office account has expertly approximated the shouting out the window tone of many of Donald Trump’s social missives while taking aim at the President, his administration members and Fox News supporters in satirical screeds on X.
But over the weekend Newsom appeared to cross a line when he brought vocal Trump pal Kid Rock into the fray. In a clearly Photoshopped poster mimicking the iconic Uncle Sam Wants You WWI Army recruitment posters, Newsom’s team threw up an image of Rock in a red, white and blue top hat and matching suit in front of the American flag with the message “Kid Rock Wants You to Support Gavin Newsom.”
Extending the clearly fake endorsement, Newsom’s personal account added “Thanks, @KidRock!!,” in seeming appreciation of the unexpected endorsement from the rocker-turned-country-singer who labeled Trump an “American Badass” in an interview in January.
As you might expect, Rock, 54, didn’t love it. In a response post, the “Don’t Tell Me How to Live” singer wrote, “The only support Gavin Newscum will ever get out of me is from DEEZ NUTZ,” repurposing one of Trump’s pet nicknames for the California politician. Newsom went all-in this week on his challenge to Trump’s call for off-cycle redistricting in Texas to hold on to Republican’s slim House next year by asking Californians to vote on redistricting in the Golden State.
The Rock AI post appeared to be a call-back to a Trump post from last year in which the former reality TV star shared a clearly cooked-up images of Taylor Swift falsely claiming that the singer had endorsed him. Trump has since repeatedly said he “hates” Swift, recently lashing out at the world’s biggest pop star by claiming that he “can’t stand her (HATE!)” and that she is “NO LONGER HOT.”
Newsom didn’t miss that opportunity to troll either, with the Governor’s press office writing on Tuesday (Aug. 19), “I HATE KID ROCK !!!“
