There isn’t too many people who steps TO Donald Trump….
Gavin Newson IS THAT guy…..
2028 can’t come too soon…
Newsom on Trump vs UCLA…..
Gov. Gavin Newsom forcefully doubled down Wednesday on his belief that California should not give into the Trump administration’s demand that UCLA pay $1 billion to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen research funding.
Speaking at POLITICO’s “The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit,” Newsom said the UC Board of Regents, which has remained tight-lipped about whether it plans to negotiate with the administration or dig in for a fight, needs to “do the right thing” but understands that “they’re all scared.”
“How could you possibly accept the fine?” an exasperated governor said, referring to the billion-dollar demand or some smaller amount the regents could negotiate. “Fine for what?”
With Trump alleging UCLA has fostered a campus atmosphere hostile to Jewish students and faculty, Newsom expressed dismay that the state could pay to settle with “the guy who had dinner with Nick Fuentes telling us about antisemitism” — a reference to a far-right activist who Trump hosted at Mar-a-Lago in 2022. “Are you kidding me?”
The governor, who previously described the settlement proposal as “extortion” and threatened to sue over it, said the matter is bigger than just UCLA. It is about “anybody or any institution that disagrees with them,” he said….
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“This guy will take anything down, and he’s trying to shut them down,” Newsom said. “I mean, a billion-dollar fine in UCLA shuts them down. It shuts down one of the finest research institutions in the world. But it’s a consistent pattern. Any institution that cultivates individual or independent thinking is under assault. And we’re going to do everything in our power to stop folks from selling out.”….
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Newson on Trump and China ‘Deals’……
Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday that people would be “outraged” if former President Joe Biden tried to strike the same deals that the Trump administration has with chipmakers Intel and Nvidia.
“This is outrageous. It’s reckless. If Joe Biden tried to nationalize Intel, if Joe Biden did a deal to send to H20 chips to China,” Newsom told POLITICO. “People would be outraged. Are you kidding me?”
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He returned to the issue a third time at the event, pointing out that the “nationalization of private industries is something they’re pretty good at in China” and predicting Beijing’s leader, Xi Jinping, was “loving this.”
Trump’s dealmaking in the sector marked a deviation from his predecessor in both cases.
He paid for the government’s $8.9 billion investment in Intel stock by repurposing funds that Biden had awarded it through grants from his signature CHIPS Act and a secretive Pentagon deal.
Nvidia designed the H20 chip to sell for the Chinese market after the Biden administration imposed export controls on more advanced versions. While the product offers less computational power than Nvidia’s top offerings, Beijing’s domestic tech giants have kept using it to train AI systems.
Biden national security officials had discussed placing additional restrictions to cover the H20 chip, but never took official action. The Trump administration initially banned it from being sold to China earlier this year, before reversing course ahead of trade talks with Xi……
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Newsom memecoin….
Gov. Gavin Newsom told POLITICO on Wednesday he is “about to come out” with his own memecoin in a jab at Donald Trump’s own cryptocurrency ventures as the California Democrat expands his online troll campaign against the president.
“By the way, I’m about to come out with a coin on my Patriot site. So you may want to look into that,” Newsom said with a laugh, referencing his online parody merchandise shop created to poke fun at Trump. “I think we’ll add a coin, maybe a Trump corruption coin or something.”
The memecoin idea builds on Newsom’s weeklong campaign parodying Trump’s signature MAGA branding. His “Governor Newsom Press Office” account on X has trolled the president’s brash, all-caps social media blasts. And earlier this week, Newsom launched the “Patriot Store” featuring MAGA-style merchandise, such as red hats reading “NEWSOM WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”…