Gavin Newsom Suggests Trump Has Dementia

As their public spat intensifies, California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused Donald Trump of having dementia.

The dig by Newsom, viewed as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, comes after Trump repeated a string of widely-debunked assertions about help sent to Los Angeles during the catastrophic wildfires in January.

In a cabinet meeting, the 79-year-old president said the federal government had to force California to ‘turn a valve’ of water back on’, claiming Californian leaders refused to provide critical water supplies.

‘We sent hundreds of millions of gallons of water per day into the Pacific Ocean,’ he said.

‘They turn a valve. The valve heads out. We turned the valve back. I actually had to do it using force.’ 

Referring to Newsom as ‘Gavin Newscum’, Trump said he told him ‘to turn the rest of the water on’.

Newsom, who has been California’s governor since 2019, hit back at Trump, using Grok, X’s AI chatbot, to suggest that the president has dementia. 

Reposting a video of Trump’s attack on him, he added a screenshot of his interaction with Grok, where he asked it if ‘people with dementia repeat false things over and over again’.

‘Yes, people with dementia can repeat false statements or beliefs, a behaviour often linked to memory impairments and cognitive changes,’ the chatbot responded.

‘This can manifest as confabulation, where they create or repeat false memories to fill gaps in recollection, or perseveration, where they fixate on a particular idea or statement.’

Newsom’s social media remark prompted a response from the White House.

In a statement to the Daily Beast, a spokesperson said: ‘Newscum will say anything to distract from his terrible handling of the California wildfires that President Trump had to come in and clean up.’

Trump also branded Newsom as ‘incompetent’ in the cabinet meeting, adding: ‘he’s got some strange hand action going on, I don’t know what the hell his problem is.’

The Democrat governor shared the clip, responding: ‘You really want to have the conversation about hands?’

Since Trump continued to make false statements about California state officials and their refusal to supply water to combat the flames, the two have been engaged in a heated battle.

Newsom has also come under fire from Trump for opposing mass deportations.

Newsom sued Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth in June for using the National Guard to put down demonstrations protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Newsom has garnered attention for copying Trump’s use of social media.

On Monday, he posted images of his own merchandise, an imitation of Trump’s Make America Great Again products, including caps with slogans including ‘Newsom was right about everything!’

He also launched ‘The Patriot Shop,’ which mockingly offers MAGA-red hats and $100 Holy Bibles.

‘I hope it’s a wake-up call to the President of the United States following his example,’ Newsom recently said.

‘If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns about what he’s putting out as President.’

To be fair, Donald Trump is old – the guy is 79 years old, and although we don’t know, there must be some sort of cognitive deterioration at his age.

He is the oldest person in American history to be inaugurated as president for the second time. Should he serve as president until August 15, 2028, he would be the oldest sitting president in American history, and at the end of his second term, he would be 82 years old.

But when all is said and done, most governments are a bit demented!

Newsom suggested that Donald Trump has dementia – I’m not sure on that one – he might have a few marbles swimming around in that head of his, giving it a wobble from time to time. However, even at Trump’s age, he’s still pretty sharp cognitively wise, but a tad slower because of his age.

Donald Trump is the president, of course, he’s going to get insults from someone or another – it should be part of the job description, but I’m sure Trump has a thick skin, he will get over all of the infantile insults, and I bet he won’t lose a night’s sleep over it.