California Gov. Gavin Newsom ripped into President Donald Trump’s administration on Saturday, saying the MAGA agenda is “actually placing America in reverse.”
“I can’t take what’s happening. I imply, no bullshit. I can’t take it. Each single day, each single hour, and it’s not even about Dems versus Republicans, it’s about this nation and what we stand for,” Newsom stated on “All the Smoke” podcast.
The California governor instructed the hosts, former NBA gamers Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, that America is reverting to a “pre-Sixties world,” noting that the conservative-leaning Supreme Courtroom might eviscerate the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protects minority voters.
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“That will seemingly occur in only a matter of months,” Newsom stated.
“I imply, they’re rewriting historical past, censoring historic info,” he went on, calling it an “unbelievable” second.
“All this anti-woke stuff is simply anti-Black, interval, full cease. All of the CRT, ESG, DEI stuff, that’s all that is. It’s this nice purge, and it’s taking place in actual time.”
Trump and his administration have aggressively pushed towards DEI, or range, fairness and inclusion, initiatives within the wake of his second time period.
The president has called such initiatives “harmful, demeaning and immoral,” going as far as accountable DEI for airline crashes. Trump’s Justice Division suggested towards packages that help girls enterprise homeowners. Final month, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth went on a vulgar discriminatory tirade towards DEI at a large in-person gathering of navy officers.
Newsom reiterated it’s now not “about Democrats or Republicans. It’s about who we’re.”
“I really feel like, anytime you need to make it more durable to vote, which means you may’t stand and win along with your coverage,” Barnes argued. “Anytime you need to make it more durable for folks to have entry to what our rights are, you may’t stand on what your coverage is.”
The California governor agreed, claiming that Trump “is aware of he’s shedding” and “is aware of he’s unpopular in each single key class, and he’s going to lose the midterm elections,” which is why he aggressively demanded 5 GOP seats in Texas redistricting.
Newsom instructed the hosts “we had a choice to make” earlier than placing ahead Proposition 50, which might provoke redistricting in California, counteracting efforts in Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps to profit the GOP.
“We are able to houtdated a candlelight vigil. We are able to discuss the best way the world must be. I can write an op-ed and categorical concern about our nation, or we are able to step up,” Newsom stated.
Watch the total episode of “All of the Smoke” beneath.
