If Gavin Newsom were half as clever as he thinks he is, he might actually recognize the joke’s on him. But alas, Newsom is the embodiment of what happens when a governor spends too much time in his own uniparty bubble—where no one dares tell him the truth, least of all his fellow Democrats.
Take Donna Brazile, who recently had to swat away Newsom’s latest stunt—mocking Trump on social media—as if it were anything other than the hollow trolling that it is. Brazile, to her credit, noted we’re living in serious times. Yet Newsom thinks memes and snarky tweets about Trump are going to rally the faithful. Wrong. What he doesn’t see—or refuses to see—is that every little dig only fuels Trump’s fire, drives his momentum, and widens the gap between the Democrats’ empty showmanship and Trump’s results.
And those results are not subtle. The Republican Party in 2025 has registered more than 4 million additional new voters than the Democrats. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a tidal shift. People are walking away from the Democrats’ clown car because they see what governing actually looks like when someone serious is in the Oval Office.
Look at Washington, D.C. A city that was a disaster under Democratic leadership just went 12 straight days without a single murder—while simultaneously taking more than 1,000 criminals off the streets. That’s the kind of thing people notice. Meanwhile, Newsom’s California? In that same timeframe—72 murders. Seventy-two. A dozen funerals per day in some cases. That’s what happens when your “progressive” policies release predators while punishing the law-abiding.
The contrast doesn’t stop there. On the Southern Border, for the last three months straight—not one single illegal entry has gotten through. Not one. Contrast that with Newsom’s heyday of “compassionate” chaos when 10,000 to 20,000 illegal crossings per day poured in, overwhelming towns, schools, and hospitals. The difference couldn’t be starker: Trump restored order, while Newsom presided over an invasion.
And then there’s the golden goose Newsom keeps strangling: California’s economy. The state boasts the fourth largest economy in the world, but it comes with the highest taxes, the worst crime, the most burdensome regulations, and the steepest exodus of jobs and people to other states. When families are literally paying people to haul them out of the Golden State to Texas, Florida, Arizona, and Tennessee, maybe the clownish mocking of Trump isn’t the best use of a governor’s time.
Meanwhile, Trump’s standing with the American people is surging. His approval ratings on global conflicts, on crime fighting, and on the cost of living are at historic highs. While Democrats grasp at stale insults and reheated scandals, Trump is winning the confidence of Americans who care about whether they can afford groceries, whether their kids are safe at school, and whether the world respects America again.
Democrats, devoid of policy, running out of criticisms, and incapable of manufacturing new scandals that anyone takes seriously, have resorted to making fools of themselves. Every tweet, every sneer, every “gotcha” only proves Trump’s point: they’re unserious, unhinged, and unworthy of power.
And the Democrats know it. Their own allies whisper what they can’t admit on camera: Trump has them boxed in. Their clown show has no encore. They are out of tricks, out of substance, and out of time.
Trump owns them. And the more they clown, the more they confirm his case.