Listen up, patriots, because if there’s one thing more terrifying than a Biden rerun, it’s the slick-haired snake oil salesman from San Francisco eyeing the presidency like it’s his next taxpayer-funded vacation. Gavin Newsom, California’s golden boy governor since January 7, 2019, has been drooling over the Oval Office for years, positioning himself as the Dems’ knight in shining armor after Biden’s flameout. Sure, plenty of lefties love him – a July 2025 poll showed 52% of Democrats viewing him favorably as a 2028 contender, with 41% saying he’d make a strong candidate. But wake up, America: This guy’s a walking disaster who’s turned the Golden State into a bankrupt beggar, and putting him in charge nationally would be like handing the nuclear codes to a guy who can’t even keep the lights on. Recent bombshells, like his August 15, 2025, admission of a $68 billion budget deficit while jetting to China for “climate talks,” just prove he’s all style, no substance – a phony who’d sell out America First for globalist applause.
Let’s start with the obvious: Newsom’s “aspirations” aren’t subtle. Back in November 2023, he launched a shadow campaign with ads blasting red states, then debated Ron DeSantis on December 1, 2023, as a Biden surrogate – but everyone knew it was audition tape for 2024. When Biden tanked in the June 27, 2024, debate, Newsom was first in line, schmoozing donors at a July 6, 2024, fundraiser and telling reporters on July 10 he’d “step up” if needed. Harris snagged the nod, but by August 2025, Newsom’s already teasing 2028, with a book tour kicking off September 17, 2025, for “Citizenship in Action,” full of platitudes about “California values” going national. Dems eat it up – an August 2025 survey found 48% of party faithful backing him over other hopefuls like Whitmer or Buttigieg – because he’s got that Hollywood hair and progressive patter. But peel back the veneer, and you’ve got a guy whose state’s a cautionary tale of leftist lunacy.
Why the hell should this clown stay far from D.C.? Exhibit A: California’s economy under Newsom is a train wreck. He inherited a $6 billion surplus in 2019; by May 2024, the deficit ballooned to $47 billion, revised up to $68 billion on August 15, 2025, thanks to his spending sprees on green boondoggles and migrant handouts. Taxes? Highest in the nation – 13.3% top income rate since 2023, plus a 7.25% sales tax that’s driven businesses out in droves. Over 18,000 companies fled between 2018 and 2022, with another 5,000 in 2023-2024, including giants like Chevron announcing a Texas HQ move on August 2, 2024. Unemployment? Stuck at 5.2% in July 2025, highest in the U.S., while the population exodus hit 75,000 net loss in 2024 alone – folks voting with their feet against Newsom’s paradise.
Crime? Don’t get me started. Newsom’s soft-on-crime schtick, like signing AB 1955 on July 15, 2024, to hide kids’ gender changes from parents, mirrors his broader lunacy. Homicides spiked 31% from 2019 to 2022, and while they dipped in 2023, retail theft exploded thanks to Prop 47 he championed in 2014 as lieutenant governor – losses topped $10 billion in 2023. San Francisco, his old stomping ground as mayor from 2004-2011, is a zombie apocalypse: Homelessness up 7% to 8,323 in 2024, with overdose deaths hitting 810 in 2023. Statewide, tents blanket highways, and Newsom’s “solution”? A $20 billion homeless spend since 2019 that’s achieved zilch, with encampments growing 20% in LA alone by June 2025.
Energy? Newsom’s green jihad is blacking out the state. He banned new gas car sales by 2035 in 2020, phased out oil drilling by 2024, and pushed solar mandates that jacked rates 127% since 2010 – PG&E bills average $293 a month in 2025, highest ever. Blackouts? Routine, with warnings issued August 19, 2025, for another heatwave flex alert. And immigration? Newsom’s sanctuary state law from 2017 (SB 54) ties cops’ hands, welcoming over 100,000 migrants since 2022 at $3 billion cost, while vetoing border security bills. His August 2025 defiance of Trump’s deportation push? Pure political theater, ignoring how his policies fueled a 25% fentanyl death spike to 7,385 in 2023.
Personal scandals? Newsom’s a hypocrite hall-of-famer. Remember the French Laundry dinner on November 6, 2020 – maskless schmoozing with lobbyists while locking down peasants? Or his kids at in-person private school during remote learning mandates? Recent dirt: On July 30, 2025, revelations surfaced of his ties to PG&E execs who donated $200,000 to his campaigns while he shielded them from wildfire liability in 2019 bills. His China trip October 23-29, 2023? Cozying with Xi while California’s hooked on Chinese solar panels – imports up 40% under him. And the family grift: Married to Siebel since 2008, whose documentaries bash conservatives, and aunt Pelosi’s nepotism network? It’s swampy as hell.
Dems may swoon – a May 2025 poll had 55% of California liberals approving his job – but nationally? His unfavorables hit 52% in an August 2025 survey, with independents at 60% thumbs down. Newsom in the White House? It’d be California writ large: Trillions in deficits, crime waves, blackouts, and taxes that crush the middle class. Trump’s America First revival – GDP up 3.2% in Q2 2025, borders secure – shows what real leadership looks like. Keep this poser in Sacramento; the Oval’s for winners, not whiners. Wake up, or watch him turn the U.S. into one big failed state.