“ He Knows He’s Toast” – Newsom Melts Down as Trump Honors Angel Families”
Gavin Newsom’s viral meltdown on X—calling him unpresidential after a racist SAT score jab and mocking his memoir—contrasts with Trump’s Angel Family Day honoring victims like 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungari, killed by an illegal immigrant. Democrats’ hypocrisy on voter IDs ("Jim Crow 2.0") vs. NYC’s "Jim Snow 2.0" snow shoveler rules highlights their shifting priorities. Meanwhile, Iran’s nuclear progress, Hezbollah threats, and China’s 5,500-ship navy underscore global instability, while Kavanaugh’s dissent gives Trump new tariff leverage. Newsom’s chaos and Trump’s targeted policies reveal a widening partisan divide over leadership and security. [Automatically generated summary]
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Sean, if you want to join us, I've been spending too much of my day fighting Gavin Newsom on X, and it's gone very viral.
Linda, have you been following this all day?
I've been, it's getting a little out of control.
Now, now Gavin is cursing at me.
I wonder if that means I've gotten under his skin a little bit.
Does that give you the privilege now to release the last text?
Well, I don't know.
I just, you know, I don't want to be that person.
Let's put it that way.
Basically, then now he's telling me to F off.
That's not nice.
That's very bad, very bad form for a guy that wants to be president.
Very, very angry.
Twitchy did an article about our fight today.
He knows he's toast.
Gavin Newsom flips out on Sean Hannity in curse-filled post about his racist gaff.
That's their headline, not mine.
It all comes down to Gavin saying this.
Now, just to give you the context of this, because Gavin was speaking, where was he?
He was in Atlanta.
And the headline in the New York Post is Gavin Newsom ripped for telling the African-American mayor of Atlanta, Andre Dickens.
I don't know Andre Dickens.
I knew all the mayors of Atlanta.
I knew Mayor Andy Young.
I knew Maynard Jackson, Bill Campbell.
He later went to jail, actually.
But I knew a lot of the mayors in Atlanta.
When I first got to Atlanta in 1992, the mayor, then mayor Maynard Jackson, called me on air and welcomed me to his city.
And I think he really meant it.
And we ended up having a pretty good relationship.
We didn't agree on a lot of stuff, but we, you know, I'd have discussions and debates with the likes of Joe Lowry, Andy Young, the people that really were, you know, so ahead of their time and changed the world for the better.
And I hope that this new mayor, he was hosting Gavin Newsom.
Gavin Newsom, I guess, is trying to promote his forthcoming memoir, Young Man in a Hurry.
And he made this statement.
I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you.
I'm just trying to impress upon you, I'm like you.
I'm no better than you.
You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy.
And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940.
But literally a 960 SAT guy.
I cannot, you've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.
This may be the wrong business to be in.
Anyway, the New York Post goes on.
Gavin Newsom has been accused of racism for citing his underwhelming SAT score during a chat with an African-American elected official over the weekend.
I'm not trying to impress you and what you just heard there.
When I heard it, it sounded very reminiscent to me of, if you recall, Joe Biden making these comments.
Challenge these students.
We should challenge students in these schools to have advanced placement programs in these schools.
We have this notion that somehow if you're poor, you cannot do it.
Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.
No, I really mean it, but think how we think about it.
I mean, and I put up on X because, you know, then he attacks me, you know, and he's inferring that I'm making fun of the fact that he's dyslexic.
I'm not at all.
It's more the comment that he's making and the comparisons that he's making.
Now, granted, I'll take it as gospel truth what he's saying, that there was a half of his life growing up with his mother that they struggled and he didn't have a lot of money.
But his father had a pretty important position with the Getty family, one of the richest, the most prominent families out on the West Coast.
And, you know, I've also read that Gavin, if he wants to correct me on this, I definitely am open to being corrected, but apparently went on like safaris.
And I don't know many, many kids that would describe themselves as underprivileged as having ever gone on a safari.
And so, anyway, it became a big issue.
He got all pissed off.
And it is, I finally just had it with his crap.
And he attacks me on X.
And I just, you know, I said to him, I put up a post.
It's amazing you are now a full-time world traveler, full-time ex-poster, full-time Trump stalker, full-time podcaster, now full-time author, no show governor, as your state is collapsing.
And it's all true what I'm saying.
I said, if you gave an Adam shift about the people of California, you'd make sure fire hydrants and reservoirs had water for predictable wildfires and winds.
Santa Ana winds are predictable.
By the way, that also, I didn't put in this post, but they would practice the science of forestry.
I said, you lower taxes.
They have the highest income taxes, highest sales taxes, highest gas taxes.
And that hurts lower and middle-income people a lot.
You'd resolve homelessness.
We played last week his 2008 pledge to end homelessness and how he was going to do it.
You'd fix your broken educational system.
It's one of the worst in the country, you know, K through 12.
You'd balance your budget.
You'd stop rewarding and protecting illegal immigrants with sanctuary states and city policies.
It's bankrupting your state.
And some illegals are committing the most violent crimes against your citizens and causing the largest mass migration out of your state as a result.
Spare me your phony lectures about your impoverished life.
Tell us more about the safaris you went on as a child.
And I said, your slick hair gels shtick and BS is getting old, and you're the worst governor in the country.
And, you know, it just went from there.
And then, I don't know, did you see when he cursed back at me?
It was very not nice.
It was not nice when he cursed at me.
Did you see that?
Yeah, I did see it.
He's not a kind man at all.
Did that upset you?
Were you like defensive of me?
I was enraged.
And I'll tell you what, I was grateful that I didn't give up cursing for Lent because I was able to say everything I wanted to say about him.
It was a wonderful time for me.
We'll get to that later.
You know, you just can't miss an opportunity to press why your rationalization because you are not, you're too weak.
Let's be honest.
You're just too weak to give it up.
I just want to say I'm grateful.
And so you're, no, let's be honest.
If you tried for years for Lent to give up cursing, you couldn't do it.
You failed spectacularly.
Yes.
And that's what it's become.
And now I know.
Boy.
Anyway, you don't give an Adam shiff about being Joe Biden's public spokesperson, knowing Joe Biden partnered with the former Klansman, Robert KKK Bird, as they tried to prevent integration in public schools.
So spare me your effing, fake, phony, feigned outrage.
And how about you get homeowners building permits in the Pacific Palisades instead of making a jackass out of yourself daily?
Just a thought.
And it's like, I'm so tired of him.
And I'm not the only one.
Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, Nikki Minaj, a whole, I mean, it was, people started unloading on him.
People have just figured out that this guy is just an overly ambitious, vapid idiot.
The president today signed a proclamation declaring February 22nd as Angel Family Day.
Let me play a cut of it.
In just a few moments, I officially signed a proclamation that I've been waiting to sign for a long time, including my first administration.
There were so many different legal roadblocks.
It was incredible.
We got it done, and I'm doing it today.
February 22nd is going to be National Angel Family Day.
Very important.
So many incredible family members and friends, parents and children.
On February 22nd, two years ago, a brilliant 22-year-old nursing student named Lacan Hope Riley went out for a run on a college campus in Georgia.
Lacan was viciously attacked, brutally beaten and murdered by an illegal alien gang member who the last administration heartlessly released into our country.
I mean, that's what the president did.
It was just, it was very special, very spectacular.
Now, we have the State of the Union tomorrow, and it was just amazing that the president does this.
Go back one year ago, though, at the joint session speech of the president.
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Democrats wouldn't stand for Lake and Riley's family, and they wouldn't stand for Jocelyn Nungari's family.
Jocelyn was 12 years old.
He was brutally raped and murdered by Biden-Harris Maorcas illegals.
And you wonder why I say they have blood on their hands.
That's why.
And Democrats, they were complicit in this.
Anyway, it's sad, but the president is never going to forget because these are all preventable deaths.
As I've been saying forever, this was the most preventable national security disaster in our nation's history.
Linda, let me ask you, what was the greatest part of this weekend?
There was a great part.
It was the American hockey team winning gold.
It was crazy.
Did you watch the game?
I did not.
I watched the replays when they won.
How could you not watch that entire game?
I got up at 8 o'clock in the morning and I just sat there.
I didn't move the entire time.
My daughter had lacrosse and my son had football and, you know, duty's cool.
But I did watch it on the replay.
The replay is not the same.
You know that, right?
I know, but, you know, I got to be a mom.
You didn't have the issue.
I did see it.
I did it, but it was awesome.
It was so cool.
So Jack Hughes scored the overtime goal.
It was, I don't know if you, do you know anything about hockey?
Not like you, no.
Okay.
Do you know how many people are on each side?
I do not.
Okay.
You have three forwards, two defensemen, and a goaltender.
Okay.
And if you get to overtime, and in the Olympics, it's 20 minutes straight up.
They go three on three, which opens up the ice in a big, big way.
That's a big deal.
Jack Hughes scores the winning goal for the USA.
We had not won the gold medal in Olympic men's hockey.
Now, the women, they won the Olympic gold medal also against Canada.
I mean, this is like a double whammy for Canada.
And anyway, and one of the differences, one of my complaints about the Olympics is some of these, you know, politically correct or political statements from some of the athletes that just don't love America the way this guy, Jack Hughes, does.
Listen, this is all about our country right now.
I love the USA.
I love my teammates.
It's unbelievable.
The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong.
And we have so much support from ex-players.
I'm so proud to be American today.
This was such an incredible game to grind out.
I mean, you're bleeding right through it just looking at you right now.
Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal was to win?
Unbelievable game by Hellabuck.
He was our best player tonight by a mile.
Unbelievable game.
Unreal game by our team.
That's just a ballsy, gutsy win.
That's American hockey right there.
That's a great Canadian team, but we're USA.
We're so proud to be Americans.
Tonight was all for the country.
What does this gold medal mean to USA hockey?
It's everything.
Like I said, the USA Hockey Brotherhood means so much.
Look at these guys.
We're such a team.
We've been in the Iron for two weeks.
We're such a team.
The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong.
And we're so proud to win for our country.
I mean, it was such an amazing moment.
I can't believe you did not get up and watch that game.
That was the only thing I wanted to see.
The only thing I've watched this entire Winter Olympics is the hockey.
The only thing I cared about.
Although I did care about that.
That's all you care about normally.
You love hockey.
Well, Lindsay Vaughan's story was interesting to me because I thought she really had a good shot.
She had been skiing so phenomenally well, and she was making a comeback and doing so great.
And then she had that, you know, 13 minutes into a run.
She had this horrible crash.
She actually put out a post that a doctor saved a leg from amputation.
I am harassing all of my friends up in the Northeast with pictures of what it is like where I live in Florida today.
I think I have garnered more hatred in one day between Gavin Newsom and all my friends in the Northeast than I ever have in any one given day today.
That was pretty mean, right?
Because they have such a, I mean, a lot of places got as much as 18 or 24 inches.
Yeah, we got 28, and I will tell you that I got a nice picture of the ocean today from Sweet Baby.
Pretty cool, right?
Linda, I'd never actually heard about this idea of an emergency snow shoveler.
Did you ever hear of that before?
I have not, but if you are watching right now, our American hockey team is returning home.
I figure you might want to know that because I know you love them.
No, they're amazing.
And I will tell you, it was so refreshing to hear Jack Hughes and his answer.
And I love my teammates.
I love my country.
I love America.
So proud to be Americans today.
We did this for America.
I mean, in sudden death against, look, the Canadian team was stacked.
They had at least five of the best NHL players, including like three of my Florida Panthers.
Then they had other Florida Panthers on the American team because they play for the country in which they were born and they play with pride.
And, you know, it's a brotherhood in the NHL, which I think is really cool.
And anyway, so we have this New York City anti-voter ID mayor.
His name is Zoron.
Zoron.
We affectionately call him Marxist Kami Mamdani.
He's a communist.
And he wants to hire emergency snow shovelers.
How many inches did New York City get about?
They got close to two feet, right?
20 inches or something like that?
Almost.
Yeah.
You guys got a lot of.
And I've pissed off a lot of my friends in the Northeast today by sending them pictures of the weather I live.
And, you know, they just are furious with me because, you know, Sensei was pitching up a storm because this is now, what, the third big snowstorm you've had?
And you haven't more snow coming this week.
Not good.
And so, and a lot, a lot has happened since then.
They've not picked up the garbage in New York.
You know, they have these big piles of snow and dogs go poop all over it and people leave it there.
It's just disgusting.
Anyway, so remember Chucky Schumer started by calling voter ID and proof of citizenship Jim Crow 2.0.
And anyway, now the mayor that opposes IDs to vote in New York City is mandating no less than five forms of identification in order to be an emergency New York City snow shoveler.
Now, I find this stunning.
The New York City Sanitation Department website says that in order to register as an emergency snow shoveler, an applicant must provide two small photos size one to one and a half square inches, two original forms of ID plus copies, and their original and their social security card.
Momdani called on New Yorkers to sign up to become emergency snow shovelers, telling them to show up at a local sanitation garage with reams of required paperwork.
And the mayor's a member of the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, and they vehemently oppose voter ID laws and the SAVE Act.
They deem it racist.
Our candidates for office stand firm against racist voter ID laws and secret poll taxes like the Save America Act.
That's on their website.
Social media people mocking Mamdani over the hypocrisy.
You know, applicants required to provide two photos, two forms of ID, and a social security card.
You know, Jimmy Phela had a great line.
He said, this is Jim Snow 2.0.
But to register, that is what you need to do.
And this is Momdani telling people that want to become New York City emergency snow shovelers to show up with their paperwork.
Listen.
And we're utilizing 33 DSNY vans and two DSNY buses to transport shovelers where they're needed faster.
And for those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler.
Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. tomorrow with your paperwork, which is accessible online at nyc.gov slash snow, and you can get started right away.
You can't make this up.
You know, Jim Snow 2.0.
I mean, to register to shovel snow and be an emergency snow shoveler, you need all that identification.
Now, here's Momdani explaining why you need to get paid to get paid, an ID to get paid shoveling snow.
There's a bit of this controversy over the snow laborers and the sort of what some see as onerous need to have documentation.
Can you just talk about if that's new and what you make of the controversy?
This is all longstanding.
This is a longstanding program and long-standing requirements.
And this is a way that New Yorkers get paid to shovel snow in assistance with the city's response to a winter storm event.
Federal law requires that employers get authorization and documentation to pay people for their work.
We are not allowed to just cut checks to individuals for their work.
And these are the policies that we've had in place, but I understand that for many, it's the first time that they've ever heard about it.
Oh, I thought you were going to change all that.
I thought you didn't believe in that.
How come when he does it, it's not Jim Crow 2.0?
How come it's okay?
Anyway, how's the snow where you are, Linda?
Oh, man, we got crushed.
We got about 26 to 28 inches.
It's a lot.
I will give you a bonus if you go out to your master spa.
First of all, all joking aside, I couldn't even get the dang thing open.
There's three feet of snow on the roof.
It's ridiculous.
Uh-huh.
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I'm just saying.
Some things are just reality.
Well, I do feel sorry.
I mean, I honestly do because I used to hate it like this.
I mean, when it gets that big and that thick and that heavy.
Do you really feel that bad?
Do you really, if you're sending out pictures of Florida?
Do you really feel that bad?
Not sensing it.
Not really.
I mean, I feel a little bad for them.
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
I don't hear it in your voice.
I hear a lot of smarminess from your voice on this one, and I think little of it.
Oh, you're pissed off that it snowed?
Can you tell me?
You make the choice to live where you live.
Don't blame me for your choices in life.
Why are you blaming me?
Not talking about the choice.
I'm talking about your choice to send out obnoxious pictures of sunny Florida.
We don't need that.
I don't need that.
None of us in this team needs that.
Boy, you sound very, very angry, Jason.
Well, I don't know.
It sounds like righteous indignation to me.
Well, when Jesus upended the tables in the temple, I think that was righteous indignation.
I think anger can be a sin and be, it's one of the worst emotions.
Jason's just tossing, he's tossing the tables in the snow.
Potato potato.
It's all good.
No, I'm actually proud of him.
By the way, the U.S. has reportedly played a role in the Mexican military operation resulting in the death of the cartel narco-terrorist El Mencho, leader of this new generation cartel on Sunday.
He led one of Mexico's most powerful criminal gangs, was a rival of the Sinaloa cartel, was killed in the operation.
Unbelievable.
State Department, by the way, has ordered the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in Lebanon.
Reports, we'll get into that with Lindsey Graham coming up later in the program today, but none of this is good news.
Nine out of ten states with the worst affordability crisis are run by Democrats.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis published the official price cost of living comparisons for all 50 states plus D.C. All right, do you want to take a crack at this?
I don't think you have not seen this list, have you, Linda?
I what list?
Of what?
Okay, Bureau of Economic Analysis published the official price cost of living comparisons for all 50 states in D.C. in 2024.
And nine of the 10 most expensive places to live are solid blue states.
Nine of the 10 most affordable are solid red states.
Just give me the top five or six most expensive, worst affordability crises.
Where do you think they are?
Easily, California, New York.
One.
Ding, That's only one?
Well, that's one.
That's number one.
California.
That's number two.
California is not number two.
Really?
I'm very surprised.
No, California's number one.
I'm sorry.
California is number one.
New York is not number two.
Oh, okay.
Washington?
That would be number three.
Number two, you've not gotten yet.
Number two, interesting.
I think far, far away.
Far, far away.
Oregon?
Hawaii.
Hawaii.
I never would have asked that.
Makes sense, though.
It does.
I would probably get that wrong, too.
All right.
Now, now go.
What's number four?
Hmm.
Where was Oregon on the list?
Not top five?
No.
You round up.
Number four is New Jersey.
Number five is New York.
Number six is Washington State.
Interesting.
That's it.
Okay, so do it again.
California number one.
Hawaii number two.
Hawaii, D.C., New Jersey, New York, Washington State.
Wow.
I'm surprised.
Well, I'm glad I can help educate you.
I have to.
That's why you've got to listen three hours a day.
I appreciate it.
The FBI is on high alert, tracking a surge in Iranian-linked activity inside the U.S. Over 1,500 Iranian nationals that have entered the country illegally over the past several years under Joe Biden, many unaccounted for.
During a high-profile budget hearing in January, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, testified the DOJ is currently managing countless active homeland security threat cases.
Now, the top Trump-Iran negotiator, Steve Witkoff, the Middle East envoy, said the Muellers are just a week away from having enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb.
They went right back to what they were doing ahead of time.
The Ayatollah, Ali Khamenei, has reportedly made doomsday plans in anticipation of an attack.
According to the Daily Mail, he's plotting for a doomsday scenario with President Trump, and Khamenei has instructed, apparently, this other official, another national security official, Ali Larijani, A top Iranian national security official who believes that the country is ready for whatever will come their way.
Ayatollahs, look, we have to take any military engagement seriously.
That's why the president is sending so much military might there.
This is a real threat.
We don't want any Americans to die.
But, you know, unfortunately, the world is governed by very hostile, evil actors, and there's never been one worse than the Iranians in modern times in terms of their commitment to foment terrorism, kill innocent Americans included, around the globe and create total havoc and disarray in the region.
They have ballistic missiles.
They have drones.
They have their swarming boats, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
They have cruise missiles.
These are serious weapons.
Then Iran could activate Hezbollah if the U.S. targets the regime.
Certainly Israel is on high alert, whether they're saying it or not.
There's no doubt that that's the case.
Khamenei taking these steps, but they're also threatening President Trump and putting out images of potential strikes on U.S. ships in the region.
And that's becoming, you know, that's complicating things on a big level.
The president, by the way, said he's sending a hospital boat to Greenland.
I don't know if they need hospital care there.
We know that China dominates with 5,500 ships while America doesn't have that many ships.
Under Reagan, what do we have?
How many ship Navy?
It was like 600 plus.
Crazy.
Or 6,000, whatever the number was.
It was nuts.
But Reagan was committed to national security and peace through strength.
To do that, you have to spend money.
And it's one of those things.
There's a great article going back to the topic we discussed at length on Friday that confirms everything that I had been telling you from the Washington Journal and Washington Source Journal.
And the headline is, Kavanaugh dissent gives Trump a tariff workaround to all but undo the SCOTUS ruling.
And that's what I was telling you, that if you look in the dissent, Justice Kavanaugh laid out exactly what would be more effective.
And Scott Besson had a really good observation about this.
What Justice Kavanaugh did was give Trump the justification that he needed, and it's stronger, and it strengthens the president's hand because it has a stronger legal basis than the emergency powers, which would run out when the president left office.
And Justice Kavanaugh spelled out, for example, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Section 232, the Trade Act of 1974, sections 122, 201, 301, the Tariff Act 1930, section 338.
The court concluded the president checked the wrong statutory box by relying on this emergency act, which is the Emergency Powers Act known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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And so there's not going to be any discussion, I don't think, over time in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Now, we didn't talk about what happened at Mar-a-Lago and this guy that got shot over the weekend.
I know the, I just happen to know the sheriff people in Palm Beach really well.
I've had a lot of encounters with them, know them, and they are the best people on earth.
Same with Secret Service people.
They had no desire to kill anybody, but the person would not put down a canister and a shotgun, and he raised the shotgun at the officers.
They had no choice.
It is sad, but I will say this, and Scott Bessant wasn't wrong.
The venom from Democrats against the president, this dehumanization, this incitement has got to stop.
At some point, you can't say that it's not directly connected, because I believe it is.