‘Wake Up Everybody!’ Gavin Newsom Warns Trump Is ‘Setting Up’ To Stay in Power
California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused President Donald Trump of building “the world’s largest private police force” through a $75 billion expansion of ICE and warned the president has no intention of leaving office after a second term.
Speaking at Politico’s inaugural California Policy Summit, the Democratic governor cast Trump’s plans as an existential threat to democracy.
“You think people actually think this guy’s serious about having another election? You think he’s joking about 2028?” Newsom said.
Pressed on the question by Politico’s California Editorial Director Chris Cadelago, the governor replied: “I don’t think Donald Trump wants another election.”
Trump aides, he said, have repeatedly sent him “Trump 2028” hats – of which he has two dozen.
He then revealed, for the first time, details of his private meeting with Trump at the White House, when Trump pointed out a painting of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president to serve more than two terms: “He showed me a painting. He said, ‘Turn around.’ And I said, ‘Oh, there’s FDR.’ And I went, ‘Of course.’ And he goes, he said, ‘What do you mean?’ I said, ‘I know exactly what you mean.’ And then he went on and on about the third term.”
Newsom further pointed to Trump’s National Guard deployments and argued the president was already exercising “not just authoritarian tendencies, but authoritarian actions.”
He continued: “You have the largest private police force in the world. When they’re done with this, all that funding and that big beautiful portrayal allows more resources for this private police force that increasingly is showing a tendency not to swear an oath to the Constitution, but to the president of the United States. And he’ll be sending them to voting booths and polling places all across this country.”
The governor, widely tipped as a Democratic White House contender for 2028, used the platform to defend California’s gerrymandering push, calling it a necessary counterpunch to Republican redistricting in Texas and highlighted Trump’s calls to ban mail-in voting, a further red flag.
Newsom said: “You’ve seen it. He tried to steal the last election. He’s trying to rig it in plain sight this time. He wants to get rid of vote-by-mail. He’s talking about eliminating voting machines he doesn’t like. He’s setting up the contours where he can declare a declaration of emergency for anything. ‘Just cause’ means whatever he just said on Truth Social.”
As Cadelago tried to push on with questioning, Newsom interrupted: “Wake up everybody! Wake up!”
He continued: “I know it’s impolite. We have to be more calm and demure. But I’m not calm and I’m not going to submit myself to niceties, not when this guy has tried to wreck our Goddamn country.”
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