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Newsom Thows His Communications Team Under the Bus Over Vile ICE Comment

Updated: POLITICS

Gavin Newsom’s official, taxpayer-funded press office account on X, @GovPressOffice, has become a minor embarrassment — a government communications shop that behaves like a snarky teenage troll. Rather than inform the public, it devotes itself to cheap shots at Donald Trump and a steady stream of petulant, juvenile commentary unworthy of a serious office. The account routinely crosses basic lines of decency — most notoriously when it insinuated that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was akin to a member of Hitler’s SS. Too often, its posts read less like professional government messaging and more like something scrawled by Beavis and Butt-Head.

On Thursday, however, Newsom promptly sold his own team down the river, publicly contradicting the very message his office had been pushing — the official position of the governor’s office, no less. One imagines the mood in Sacramento turned a bit icy after that.

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The reversal came during an appearance by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on Newsom’s show, and Shapiro wasted no time pressing him on it:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom walked back a social media post from his press office under pressure from Ben Shapiro on Thursday, agreeing with Shapiro that it was “fair” to say ICE officers are “not terrorists.”

During a conversation between Newsom and Shapiro on the This is Gavin Newsom podcast, Shapiro grilled the governor about a post his press office made following the ICE shooting of Renee Good, which simply read, “STATE. SPONSORED. TERRORISM.”

Just like Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Newsom’s operation has cranked the inciting rhetoric up to eleven. But when pressed to stand behind his team’s own language, Gavin suddenly lost his nerve, refusing to defend the very garbage his office had been shoveling into the public square:

“Your press office tweeted out that it was state-sponsored terrorism, which, I mean governor, I just have to ask you about that. That sort of thing makes our politics worse, and it does,” said Shapiro, to which Newsom responded, “Yeah.”

Shapiro continued, “Our ICE officers obviously are not terrorists. A tragic situation is not state-sponsored terrorism.”

“Yeah, I think that’s fair,” agreed Newsom.

That said, as of this writing, the outrageous tweet was still online:

Here’s a graphic in case Newsom has it taken down:

One hardly needs to look far for another example of Gavin Newsom’s rank hypocrisy. Once again, it surfaced not in a policy debate or legislative action, but on his own podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom. In a revealing March conversation with the late Charlie Kirk, the carefully stage-managed governor briefly dropped the script and conceded an obvious truth: allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports is wrong.

The admission was striking not because it was controversial, but because it flatly contradicted the ideology Newsom has spent years promoting in public:

I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair.

And what followed that admission? Nothing. Not a policy change. Not a statement of principle. Zero, zilch, nada. In California, boys continued competing against girls, displacing female athletes, stripping them of medals, scholarships, and opportunities, while the governor said nothing and did nothing:

His new lawsuit against the Trump DOJ claims banning boys from girls sports causes “serious harm” to transgender students, while completely ignoring the far greater harm suffered by women when men intrude on their bathrooms, locker rooms, and sporting competitions.

This isn’t “inclusion,” it’s ideology over reality. And fortunately for us, this ideology is profoundly unpopular.

What do these two episodes make clear?

First, never get in a foxhole with Gavin Newsom. When the shooting starts, he won’t have your back—he’ll use you as cover. One can only imagine the damage control now underway inside his press shop.

Second, the man has no fixed principles. Newsom moves wherever the political breeze takes him. In one room, boys competing in girls’ sports is suddenly “wrong.” Step into the next, and the script flips entirely. Truth is situational. Conviction is optional. Consistency is nonexistent.

This isn’t leadership. It’s pure political survivalism—say whatever works in the moment, then deny it when the audience changes. And haven’t Americans had bellyfuls of this for decades?

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