The California governor described White House reporters as ‘sycophants’

California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized the media for what he described as overly deferential coverage of Donald Trump, characterizing reporters in Oval Office press briefings as “sycophants.”

The Democratic governor — widely seen as a potential contender for the 2028 presidential race — made the remarks during a Sunday interview with progressive commentator Jack Cocchiarella.

Cocchiarella pressed Newsom on what he framed as “hesitancy” within the White House press corps to scrutinize certain subjects: namely, the 80-year-old president’s health.

“You see these press conferences in the Oval Office,” the governor replied. “You maybe have one or two reasonable reporters. They ask a question; there’s no chance for a follow-up. And then it’s seven sycophants from news outlets.”

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    20 hours ago

    This piece of giant shit fucked up California so much. He’s to blame for all the fires, he stopped funding fire departments to do controlled burns and left it to the “consumers”.

    Also, so many whistleblowers came out from his fundraising foundation that he and his wife were embezzling funds during the Biden administration, Biden’s doj launched an investigation still going on today.

    He also used prison populations to fight fires as slave labor with no chance of becoming a fire fighter upon release because of their criminal records.

    He regularly makes sure to cover for his habitually drunk driving asshole of an uncle, including VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER. And plays the stock market just like his corrupt cunt aunt.

    He gave billionaires WATER RIGHTS to waste on growing fucking almonds that DIRECTLY CAUSED droughts in the central valley.

    This fucking swamp taint needs to have his personal winery dumped with the round up he approved to dump on forests, killing any life and draining into municipal water infrastructure. He’s directly causing more cancer and health issues for regular people

    Newsom is JUST AS MUCH OF A FASCIST AS TRUMP.

    HE SUCKS BILLIONAIRE COCK EVERYDAY, THAT’S WHY CALIFORNIA HAS THE MOST BILLIONAIRES IN THE FUCKING COUNTRY NOW.

    HE FUCKING DESTROYED MY HOME STATE

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      17 hours ago

      Fuck Newsome, for sure.

      To say he’s just as fascist as Trump is crazy though

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        Gavin Newsom is more overtly right-wing than our Canadian Prime Minister was when he was campaigning and even then it was pretty clear who he was going to work for. Now that he’s in charge he’s selling our country for parts and fucking us all over, down to trying to order a strike to be illegal to help out an airline. There are “surveys” they’re putting out that only allow compliments.

        Gavin Newsom is objectively worse than Carney and Carney is awful. The only thing making these people appear less awful than Trump is that their suits fit, they don’t have dementia, and they’re willing to appear at a pride parade if only to launder their image. The distinction is functionally meaningless at this point.

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        16 hours ago

        No it’s not. The dude is just as fucking corrupt and only has an eye for fascist crapitalism, he doesn’t do good things at all for the people of California and has screwed up his tenure on purpose to his own benefit and the state governments. Exploiting your constituents is fucking fascist. He may not be a rapist/pedophile and in that regard and that regard only, might he a better man than the orange one.