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How trolling Trump became a strategy for Newsom
Axios ^
 | July 18, 2025
 |  Alex Thompson
Posted on 07/18/2025 12:13:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently shook up his communications team, and now the outspoken Democrat is turning many of Donald Trump's brash political tactics against the president himself. 
Newsom and his team have used online trolling, meme wars, mocking TikTok videos, insults such as "****," and even a lawsuit against a media company — in this case, one accusing Fox News of misleading reporting — to create an edgy resistance.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: california; demagogicparty; gavinnewsom; orangemanbad; sociopath
    
To: MinorityRepublican
To: MinorityRepublican
    LAMER than Tiny Tim at Christmastime....................
 
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posted on 
07/18/2025 12:15:42 PM PDT
by 
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
 
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on 
07/18/2025 12:18:20 PM PDT
by 
PGR88
 
To: MinorityRepublican
    Newscum, Newscum, Newscum, Newscum, Newscum, Newscum!!!!!!!
 
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posted on 
07/18/2025 12:18:54 PM PDT
by 
pacificus
 
To: MinorityRepublican
    A strategy that fell on its face.
 
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posted on 
07/18/2025 12:19:15 PM PDT
by 
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”   ― John Wayne)
 
To: mass55th
    Trying to troll Trump is a fool’s errand. Go for it NewSCUM!
 
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posted on 
07/18/2025 12:21:09 PM PDT
by 
ohioman
 
To: Red Badger
    Would that be jazz hands tiny Timmy tampon? 😂👍. Grabem needs to tread lightly(how else) since trump is the troll master.
 
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posted on 
07/18/2025 12:21:41 PM PDT
by 
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check!  WTH?  Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉!  🇮🇱👍!)
 
To: MinorityRepublican
    You can't out troll Trump.
 The guy went through hell last year including a near assassination and close to a 100 indictments..
 But he was tough long before that.
To: MinorityRepublican
    He can not campaign nationally on his own California record.
There is no national vision. Trump owns him. That’s all he has.
 
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posted on 
07/18/2025 12:35:13 PM PDT
by 
llevrok
(Keep buggering on!)
 
To: llevrok
    There is no national vision. Trump owns him. That’s all he has.Fortunately for Newsom, he's not running against Trump in 2028.
 
To: MinorityRepublican
    It could be AOC & him in the Dem primary finals in ‘28.
 
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posted on 
07/18/2025 1:02:42 PM PDT
by 
aynrandfreak
(Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
 
To: aynrandfreak; ransomnote; bitt; Red Badger; Tilted Irish Kilt; Kathy in Alaska; rodguy911; ...
    Total extinction of the RAT Party. Bring it on.
Greasy NewScum 2.0
 
To: MinorityRepublican
    yes, Newsom is doing that krap to PDJT
but it sure doesn’t help him politically (aside from his 8 or 10 percent core constituency which he will always have anyway)
and it sure ain’t gonna help the state, that’s for sure!
 
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posted on 
07/18/2025 1:23:17 PM PDT
by 
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted."   Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
 
To: TexasFreeper2009
    He trolls like a progressive. Not humorous and makes no sense.
 
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on 
07/19/2025 4:42:43 AM PDT
by 
Joe Boucher
(Kimber .45  Be Kind.)
 
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