Poor Gavin News Agency. The governor hasn’t swallowed so many indigestive fares since he visited the French laundry.
In the three weeks since Donald Trump took office, no one has been a president attacking democratic norms, excessive violations or nasty engines from the executive branch, and emissions from the country’s chief propagandist have not been in the past.
Newsom once fancied his response in the vanguard of Trump’s resistance to ignoring the president’s actions to a large extent, or sending out some airy clichés with the throwing weight of the descending pillow.
When Newsom signed legislation last week authorizing $50 million to fight the Trump administration’s courts and support legal services for immigrants, the governor (not entirely propaganda) got along well with Nary’s news cameras.
It’s good for him.
All silence must leave a bad smell in Newsom’s mouth. (We’re not talking about Sony Wine Country cuisine, which has put the Governor in a lot of trouble when he enjoyed a Michelin-starred meal with his friends during the pandemic lockdown.)
But if that’s the best side of Trump and see the desperately needed federal wildfire relief in California, then it’s urgently needed — what thousands of Los Angeles-area residents deserve, that’s it.
In some political instincts are to scream, trample and vent in every Trump provocation. It was a way to release tensions, and it was not an unreasonable response to his horror show in the last two and a half weeks.
But, in fact, how politically productive is this?
During the presidential campaign, Trump did not keep his rough plans secret. He still had a clear victory, defeating Kamala Harris and even winning a popular vote, despite his fall to a 50% majority.
This simply does not indicate that surrender is orderly. Numerous legal battles are underway to examine Trump’s dictatorship, with California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the one who wears grooves on court pedals, fighting Trump and his co-president Elon Musk.
Newsom, by contrast, has chosen more, we can say, diplomatic attitudes, and puppies playing Trump require constant praise and attention.
The president’s arrival swept the president’s arrival when Trump flew to Los Angeles International Airport last month to investigate the fire losses in the Pacific Palisades, and it turns out that their forced encounters proved to be Bonniomi and Broms. Extended handshake. Shoulder buckle.
“I thank the governor for coming out to see me,” Trump said generously despite the lack of invitation.
“Thank you for being here,” Newsom said Demurely. “That means a lot.”
Last week, the two squeezed in the Oval Office for 90 minutes, the meeting involved wildfire recovery aid, California’s counterattack against Trump, and more. Afterwards, Newsom described their gathering as “real, substantial” and “positive.”
“There is something familiar, there is a relationship surrounding Kuvid’s crisis,” Newsom told Taryn Luna of the Times’ Sacramento Innings, noting how Trump gave California to Taryn Luna during the pandemic. “I want to go back to that space.”
The fact that Trump chose to hold the first and last and only public remarks at their meeting to Newsom, or “news rescue,” the president calls him childishly, tells a lot about their current relationship status.
Of course, if Trump breaks endlessly with precedents until some political concessions are obtained, there is no threat to withhold disaster relief: California’s electoral system is unnecessary overhaul, and his political benefactor on the state’s farm has more water.
But this is the world we live in.
Who knows how long Newsom-Trump Detente will last. The “massive” immigration enforcement action is reportedly planned to be carried out in the Los Angeles area soon, and it will certainly test its political ceasefire.
Inevitably, every move of the News Agency is compared with what he believes is the presidential ambition.
This is stupid for a number of reasons, especially the fact that the campaign is a political light-year. As National Democracy strategist Lis Smith suggested, “Anyone who looks at this from a political perspective in 2028 may need to log in.”
(For those who hold their breath, the next presidential election is no longer 1363 days.)
That said, one of the best things news magazine might do for his president is to get a huge successful recovery from January’s Firestorm, one of those epic crises that are likely to make or break the political profession. “The most important thing for any governor or any candidate in any office is that they do a good job,” Smith noted.
Once the Democratic nomination contest begins, candidates will surely face a touchstone test to measure how fiercely anti-Trump everyone has. It’s not hard to imagine some people’s adaptation to Newsom’s most traded accommodation, or grab the kind of thing the governor said to Trump and flatter him with that kind of flattery.
But Newsom is exactly what he should do, and he should provide any personal hostility and political ambitions to the people he was elected to serve.
He shouldn’t have been allowed to eat those words.
