The California governor described White House reporters as ‘sycophants’
California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized the media for what he described as overly deferential coverage of Donald Trump, characterizing reporters in Oval Office press briefings as “sycophants.”
The Democratic governor — widely seen as a potential contender for the 2028 presidential race — made the remarks during a Sunday interview with progressive commentator Jack Cocchiarella.
Cocchiarella pressed Newsom on what he framed as “hesitancy” within the White House press corps to scrutinize certain subjects: namely, the 80-year-old president’s health.
“You see these press conferences in the Oval Office,” the governor replied. “You maybe have one or two reasonable reporters. They ask a question; there’s no chance for a follow-up. And then it’s seven sycophants from news outlets.”
I can already see it. The DNC is going to shove this chucklefuck down our throats. I am tired of eating shit sandwiches. I don’t know the answer but he is not it.
Who cares. First get the nazi out and repair your democracy.
What democrat wins is a luxury problem you don’t have room for. Trump won not only by cheating but also by manipulating “leftists” to not vote.
Getting honest candidates is a luxury.
First repair your democracy- reisntate free press, regulate propaganda channels like X and fox , fix party financing, demand transparancy,….
Recovering the broken relationships with allies will take decades.
Biden campaigned as the dragonslayer who was going to get the Nazis out and force Trump out of politics. He spent four years tripping over his own dick and letting Trump get away with everything.
Party Democrats aren’t going to “repair (our) democracy.” They don’t want to, because doing so would jeopardize their personal economic interests.
Trump didn’t trick leftists into not voting. Democrats showed that they were unable or unwilling to do anything. Harris ran the same campaign as Biden: “I’m the only one who can defeat Trump.” There can’t be two Only Ones!
And before you say it, I held my nose and voted for Harris. Plenty of people did. But you can’t fault people for disengaging when the Democratic Party doesn’t deliver on literally their only campaign promise. Not universal healthcare. Not the minimum wage. Not housing. Just “Trump bad” and “this is democracy’s last chance” twice in a row.
Agreed. Stop the bleeding first, then triage based on wounds and prognosis.
Recovering the broken relationships with allies will take decades.
I’m fully prepared to not live long enough to see that repaired. Not that it’s hopeless, but it really will take a lifetime.
Voting for the lesser of two evils, over and over again, is how we got here, so nah. Do it right or let it burn.
No it’s not. It’s the opposite
when a democrat is in office it’s column A when republicans are in office its column B.
ok look the result is the same
That’s not even remotely true. The trump regime is unique, only comparable to e.g. The first years of the nazis and idiocracy.
Nothing in the US is comparable to it. Stop this Russian propaganda
sure, trump is uniquely fast in his rightward push, as opposed to DNC democrats moderate rightward push.
we are one minute from eclipsing nazi germany and yet we still argue for the lesser of two evils. ESPECIALLY since we are years away from another election and have all the time we need to not feild a peice of shit, but nope, time to buckle in for another inevitable false compromise
I wouldn’t count on another real election. Russia style at best
Getting honest candidates is a prerequisite for having a candidate fulfill their promise to repair democracy and hold the current administration accountable.
The core of the problem is the extreme wealthy - no Republican candidate is going to do anything about that, Democrat candidates can be pressured into it.
The Democrat candidate in 2024 did not respond to pressure and instead opted to run with a Republican by her side. If I believed any particular democrat was going to run on a platform of getting money out of politics and their background was aligned with those goals, then I wouldn’t hesitate to vote for them but Gavin Newsom doesn’t even support his own states billionaire tax. -In reference to common metaphor here Gavin Newsome will NOT stem the bleeding.
My point is that you guys need to stop focusing so much on candidates, and start focusing more on organization. FDR was good in a lot of ways, but he did not show up magically out of nowhere, and he did not start the progressive movement on his own. The New Deal would never have happened without the urban unions and prairie populists.
Gavin Newsom is not ideal, and you should fight to ensure someone better wins the primary - but he is still more likely to find himself in a situation where he has to please some people with some good ideas.
They haven’t repealed Dodge vs Ford and that’s been in effect since 1919. No, they don’t give a fuck about regular people, just moneyed interests
Newsom is just as much of a fascist as Trump
Wow, why?
This piece of giant shit fucked up California so much. He’s to blame for all the fires, he stopped funding fire departments to do controlled burns and left it to the “consumers”.
Also, so many whistleblowers came out from his fundraising foundation that he and his wife were embezzling funds during the Biden administration, Biden’s doj launched an investigation still going on today.
He also used prison populations to fight fires as slave labor with no chance of becoming a fire fighter upon release because of their criminal records.
He regularly makes sure to cover for his habitually drunk driving asshole of an uncle, including VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER. And plays the stock market just like his corrupt cunt aunt.
He gave billionaires WATER RIGHTS to waste on growing fucking almonds that DIRECTLY CAUSED droughts in the central valley.
This fucking swamp taint needs to have his personal winery dumped with the round up he approved to dump on forests, killing any life and draining into municipal water infrastructure. He’s directly causing more cancer and health issues for regular people
Newsom is JUST AS MUCH OF A FASCIST AS TRUMP.
HE SUCKS BILLIONAIRE COCK EVERYDAY, THAT’S WHY CALIFORNIA HAS THE MOST BILLIONAIRES IN THE FUCKING COUNTRY NOW.
HE FUCKING DESTROYED MY HOME STATE
They’re going to do none of that.
There are lots of good candidates that all deserve a look and a chance to be vetted publicly.
Where were all those candidates 2024?
…not running, because the sitting president ran for re-election?
Do you not know anything about politics or are you just pretending to be this way?
You sure? I think he dropped out.
Anyway the answer is: They were all getting rat fucked in 2024. And 2020 too.
Hopefully 2028 will be different.
Excuse me but we don’t allow calm and well thought out replies here.
Reminder that Newsom is a snake and can go fuck himself
That’s the dirty ouroboros
Future President Gavin Newsom is a snake and can go fuck himself
Fixed it for you
He doesn’t have to be president when the primary hasn’t even happened.
But he’s the Next One Up, he’s already got the nomination. The primary is a formality.
The last time the DNC let a grassroots candidate take over and ruin the plans for the Next One Up, we got 8 years of a young, transformative President. They’re not gonna let that happen again under their watch!
I wish Obama was 1/10th as “transformational” as people like you (or conversely, Fox News) claim he was.
Dude didn’t even support gay marriage until Biden kind of forced his hand on it.
Still, sadly, the best president of my lifetime. So that’s just how low the bar is.
but, but It’s his turn.
/s
This piece of giant shit fucked up California so much. He’s to blame for all the fires, he stopped funding fire departments to do controlled burns and left it to the “consumers”.
Also, so many whistleblowers came out from his fundraising foundation that he and his wife were embezzling funds during the Biden administration, Biden’s doj launched an investigation still going on today.
He also used prison populations to fight fires as slave labor with no chance of becoming a fire fighter upon release because of their criminal records.
He regularly makes sure to cover for his habitually drunk driving asshole of an uncle, including VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER. And plays the stock market just like his corrupt cunt aunt.
He gave billionaires WATER RIGHTS to waste on growing fucking almonds that DIRECTLY CAUSED droughts in the central valley.
This fucking swamp taint needs to have his personal winery dumped with the round up he approved to dump on forests, killing any life and draining into municipal water infrastructure. He’s directly causing more cancer and health issues for regular people
Newsom is JUST AS MUCH OF A FASCIST AS TRUMP.
HE SUCKS BILLIONAIRE COCK EVERYDAY, THAT’S WHY CALIFORNIA HAS THE MOST BILLIONAIRES IN THE FUCKING COUNTRY NOW.
HE FUCKING DESTROYED MY HOME STATE
Fuck Newsome, for sure.
To say he’s just as fascist as Trump is crazy though
No it’s not. The dude is just as fucking corrupt and only has an eye for fascist crapitalism, he doesn’t do good things at all for the people of California and has screwed up his tenure on purpose to his own benefit and the state governments. Exploiting your constituents is fucking fascist. He may not be a rapist/pedophile and in that regard and that regard only, might he a better man than the orange one.
I mean… He ran a podcast with Charlie Kirk.
Gavin Newsom is more overtly right-wing than our Canadian Prime Minister was when he was campaigning and even then it was pretty clear who he was going to work for. Now that he’s in charge he’s selling our country for parts and fucking us all over, down to trying to order a strike to be illegal to help out an airline. There are “surveys” they’re putting out that only allow compliments.
Gavin Newsom is objectively worse than Carney and Carney is awful. The only thing making these people appear less awful than Trump is that their suits fit, they don’t have dementia, and they’re willing to appear at a pride parade if only to launder their image. The distinction is functionally meaningless at this point.
See now this is the energy that the white house press needs to bring!
Please for the love of god don’t let this fuckhead be the Democrat Party presidential candidate.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/california-law-online-age-checks-00606115 - Google, Meta, and OpenAI “supported” this. Does anyone really think their motive is to “protect the children”?
Age checks is a/the path to a national login system.
We all knew this is coming. Gavin Newsom isn’t the lefty we thought he was, or the lefty he was pretending to be. He’s a corporate shitLib, and we can’t let him be president. Not now, not ever!
Maybe AOC isn’t all we hoped she would be (and she got me drunk at some Union Square adjacent Mexican bar when I was an undergrad, so I actually trust her), but for fucks sake, if she runs for president, I’m gonna vote for her, and I hope all of you do too!
I’d much rather she be the first woman president than that Hillary bitch. Yes, fuck Trump, but that’s already happened. AOC for the win. She made me the best margaritas I’ve ever had
Such an awesome reason to vote for someone for president…
Certainly not the best reason, I’ll give you that. It certainly sounds like a bullshit reason. Other people have gotten me drunk, and I’ve certainly wouldn’t vote for them.
But she and I had a long conversation about a lot of things, and she was very clearly a highly intelligent person that I walked away from respecting quite a lot.
And I don’t know any random politician that I could say that about.
Of all the people on your ballot, could you say that about any of them?
Before she ever ran for office, I met her. I talked to her, and I got to know her. She was pretty great.
Maybe I don’t agree with every single one of her political positions, but I believe that she’s a real person that is gonna represent the best positions of the working person: ME, and people like me.
I’m gonna vote for her, because I’m convinced that she represents me and my needs and interests, and those of people like me. And so should you! And unless you can present evidence to the contrary, then shut the fuck up and vote for her, too!
For the good of you, your family, and your community!
Oh I have no doubt she’s smart. And I’d happy vote for her if her name is on the ballot… But I don’t see it happening in my lifetime… While New York has made amazing progress, and she might even be able to oust Schumer for Senate… I don’t see her on a national ballot any time soon. The US isn’t ready to elect a democratic socialist, as much as they might need to. Right now the country is a bit on the left side of center-left… The only reason the right keeps winning is the left keeps splintering. Democrats are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I get your skepticism, but i dunno…
These are unsure times. One might dare to be hopeful.
I might be surprised… but if past is prologue…probably not.
What if it’s Vance vs Newsom?
Blue maga
I love the part where Newsome empowered Israel to destroy their enemies, started a secret police to target brown people, and murdered 7 million people through government cuts. Pic Unrelated.
Honestly I doubt much of anybody gives a fuck what Newsom thinks, these days. His term ends this year.
He’s the worst choice for President who isn’t actually a Nazi.
He also might be the only choice for President who isn’t a Nazi.
Whether or not he’s the Democrat nominee, the nominee will be someone that virtually nobody actually likes.
We’re going to hold our noses and vote for them, or we’re going to get President Vance and eight more years of Heritage Foundation policy.
No chance, I think. The only poll which doesn’t place Harris in the lead, usually by double digits, gives it to Buttigeig. I think if it comes down to either Harrs vs Newsom or Buttigieg vs Newsom then the supporters of candidates who lost will put their weight behind the opponent to Newsom.
Newsom is a dishonest, anti-democratic, anti-tax, anti-bodily autonomy, etc candidate. While these qualities may have helped with California’s redistricting, he will not be popular enough for the majority in the DNC 2028 primaries.
dishonest, anti-democratic, anti-tax, anti-bodily autonomy
In other words, he’s going to be the perfect corporate shill and have billions in dark money behind his campaign.
Like Michael Bloomberg was? Lmfao
Every time I say this the internet falls on me. As a cis-straight-white-male who is close to a fairly well planned (but not exorbitant) retirement, I won’t be hurt by a third much trump term… But I will feel very sorry for those who are NOT cis-straight-white-males who stayed home and helped it happen.
Historically, there are very few instances of radical change in government… Incremental progressive change is the best we can hope for…
Of course every WH press member is asking softball questions. Any reporter that isn’t licking Donnie’s asshole has been booted from press conferences.
Yeah and we all see how AP ceased to exist as soon as they were kicked out.
Oh wait…
He knows this. We all know this. It’s posturing but he’s so shite it reads like a gerbil trying to convince everyone it’s a grizzly bear.
To say I’m extremely disappointed that the mainstream media seems to have failed us is an understatement. We have a president and senior members of his administration who are unbound by principals, morals or ethics and barely constrained by law but the media struggles to convey its dangers.
the mainstream media is run mostly by oligarchs. Of course they’re going to fail the average voter.
Newsom is just as much of a fascist as Trump
How so?
This piece of giant shit fucked up California so much. He’s to blame for all the fires, he stopped funding fire departments to do controlled burns and left it to the “consumers”.
Also, so many whistleblowers came out from his fundraising foundation that he and his wife were embezzling funds during the Biden administration, Biden’s doj launched an investigation still going on today.
He also used prison populations to fight fires as slave labor with no chance of becoming a fire fighter upon release because of their criminal records.
He regularly makes sure to cover for his habitually drunk driving asshole of an uncle, including VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER. And plays the stock market just like his corrupt cunt aunt.
He gave billionaires WATER RIGHTS to waste on growing fucking almonds that DIRECTLY CAUSED droughts in the central valley.
This fucking swamp taint needs to have his personal winery dumped with the round up he approved to dump on forests, killing any life and draining into municipal water infrastructure. He’s directly causing more cancer and health issues for regular people
Newsom is JUST AS MUCH OF A FASCIST AS TRUMP.
HE SUCKS BILLIONAIRE COCK EVERYDAY, THAT’S WHY CALIFORNIA HAS THE MOST BILLIONAIRES IN THE FUCKING COUNTRY NOW.
HE FUCKING DESTROYED MY HOME STATE
namely, the 80-year-old president’s health
Isn’t that a softball? His poor health is a good thing for everyone, not a bad thing.
Murdoch’s presses are why Trump got elected the first time. Trump has threatened broadcasting licenses, which strikes at one ventricle of the First Amendment. If Newsom is on the ballot for president, I’ll happily vote for him.
I already know Trump’s answer to any question that he feels won’t make him look good by answering it.
“Who are you, again? You’re nobody. You’re an idiot, and you ask stupid questions. Fake news!” As he moves on to another question.
Asking the fucker harder questions ain’t gonna do shit.
The California governor described White House reporters as ‘sycophants’
we call em ‘Lapdog media’ where i’m from, i guess y’all should call them ‘Rump media’.
It’s because Donpedo doesn’t allow anyone in the press core who will actually ask real questions and press him on anything.
I’d love for that to happen in the air on Qatar Force One where he just can’t walk away. He’d cower in the bathroom the whole time. Although I’m pretty sure he does that anyway.
