Newsom Slaps Trump With NSFW Reply to Bonkers Threat

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Gavin Newsom fired back at Donald Trump with a blunt NSFW message after the president again suggested Iran could be allowed to strike Los Angeles or San Diego.

“Shut the f--- up (please),” Newsom’s press office wrote on X .

White House spokesperson Davis Ingle hit back in a statement to the Daily Beast: “Gavin Newscum is the worst governor in America, and he also may be the dumbest.” The extraordinary response came after Trump revisited controversial remarks about California’s two most populous cities during a campaign rally in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday.

Trump first sparked outrage Monday at a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, where he was campaigning for Republican candidates ahead of the November midterms.

While discussing soaring gasoline prices and the economic fallout from the war with Iran, Trump argued that higher costs were a “small price to pay” for preventing Iran from causing catastrophic damage.

“Remember, with the war, it’s just artificial.

It’s a little bit high,” Trump told the crowd.

“It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe.” He then said: “They can take out a city—let ’em take, let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego.

That’s—this is a very small price to pay.” The remarks triggered immediate backlash in California, where the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas are home to more than 16 million people combined.

The White House insisted Trump was not advocating an Iranian attack on either city.

The White House Rapid Response X account said: “He was saying the U.S. is fighting to STOP Iran from having the ability to take out LA and San Diego with a nuclear weapon — which they would if they had the chance.” But on Wednesday, at a rally in San Antonio, Texas, Trump appeared to double down on his remarks as he attempted to convince MAGA voters to support embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton in the midterms.

Trump returned to the issue of oil prices, calling them “a little more, maybe more than a little,” while claiming Americans are “paying less than under the Biden administration.” The national average for regular gas was $4.36 a gallon Wednesday, according to AAA .

“You want to see trauma? You want to see problems?” Trump added.