Maga World ist so nah dran, es zu bekommen Die Parodien von Gavin Newsom steigen Menschen auf – und sie scheinen nicht ganz zu verstehen, warum

Some interesting highlights:

>Newsom has taken to trolling Trump on social media by imitating his bizarre rants, odd capitalizations, and affection for exclamation points. He has also posted several memes that are on-the-nose parodies of things Trump has fed to his followers for years.
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>And the proof that Newsom is onto something is that his supporters are reacting with genuine rage. Perhaps Newsom has hit a nerve because satire is always more effective than name-calling. Mango Mussolini or Cheeto Jesus (both of which refer to the president’s unusual bronzed skin tone) appeal only to Trump’s opponents. But a post that perfectly mimics Trump’s antics is a mirror—one that prompts people to consider how Trump looks to everyone else in the world.
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>At the least, Newsom has scored a direct hit on the double standard both in the national press and among the public that excuses Trump’s deeply concerning behavior as merely part of Trump’s shtick, some facet of his personality that cannot be held to account. Too many reporters have resorted to sane-washing Trump, forcing his bizarre statements somehow to make sense by cherry-picking the occasional phrase or sentence related to policy while ignoring his kooky rants about sharks and his Stalinist threats against his political enemies. Newsom’s parodies sidestep all the hand-wringing criticism about how presidents should act: Instead they show, rather than explain, what it should feel like when anyone but Trump acts the way Trump acts.
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>Perino is just one of many who is in high dudgeon. And Newsom responded to Perino with a dead-on Trump-like response: “DANA ‘DING DONG’ PERINO (NEVER HEARD OF HER UNTIL TODAY!)” Vice President J. D. Vance has lashed out at Newsom, telling Fox that the Californian’s attacks aren’t landing, because his trolling “ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump’s political success, which is that he’s authentic”; in other words, everyone knows that Newsom’s crackpot hijinks are fake but Trump’s are real—a rather odd defense.
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>And of course, the MAGA posters on social media and Facebook have flown off the handle with rage. (Newsom is having a “mental breakdown,” said one MAGA influencer, without a trace of irony.) As it turns out, the people who pioneered the slogan “Fuck your feelings” are impossibly delicate souls.
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>Trump’s majordomo at Fox, Sean Hannity, summed up this New Seriousness among the president’s supporters when he tut-tutted Newsom’s “performative confrontational style,” adding that “maybe it wins you points with the loony radical base in your party,” but it won’t win elections. How refreshing: Fox commentators and leading figures in the Trump administration all agreeing that a politician should not conduct himself in public like a dim, insufferable child.
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>They’re all so close to getting it.
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>I suspect—as I have since the day Trump announced his first run for president a decade ago—that the MAGA faithful are hypersensitive to criticisms of Trump because, in their hearts, many of them know. They know that many of Trump’s statements are offensive and alarmingly detached from reality. They know that Trump has a disordered personality. They know that the president is a daily embarrassment to his party and to his nation.
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>For years, these MAGA partisans have employed various tactics to prevent the imminent pain of cognitive dissonance. They resort to “what about” arguments aimed at other politicians; they claim that Trump actually knows what he’s doing or that they understand the message underneath all the broken thoughts, garbled words, and dead-end sentences. Now Newsom is forcing them to see what Trump looks like without the distorting force field created by Trump’s showmanship and his aggressive delivery of incoherent statements.
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>Come to think of it, maybe MAGA world isn’t close to getting it; maybe they do get it, and maybe that’s why, this time, they’re especially angry.

The author, at the end, makes a point worth considering: maybe the MAGA faithful do understand the president’s glaring weaknesses, and if they cannot explain it away or distract from this pain point, would much rather not be reminded of it by others.

Of course the idiot columnist wants him to move on. He needs to keep doing this till the MAGA morons figure it out, could take many years. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

Insert „If those kids could read“ meme here.

They don’t understand why?

Give ‚em a little time for Fox/OAN/NewsMax to tell them what to think.

Keep Newsom’s press office account open on my phone all day long: https://xcancel.com/govpressoffice?lang=en

„…the MAGA faithful are hypersensitive to criticisms of Trump because, in their hearts, many of them know. They know that many of Trump’s statements are offensive and alarmingly detached from reality. They know that Trump has a disordered personality. They know that the president is a daily embarrassment to his party and to his nation…“

This really sums it up in a way I haven’t seen expressed before.

Good article.

The best thing about this article is it alerted me to something that slipped past me for some reason: [Newsom getting prayed over by Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock, and an angelic Hulk Hogan](https://www.tmz.com/2025/08/18/gavin-newsom-ai-hulk-hogan-tucker-carlson-kid-rock/)

11 months too late.

The author gets so many things right but then veers off into typical democratic hand wringing. „Newsom has made his point and should move on.“ 

Fuck you, hold this mirror up until the light of day burns Trumps followers into dust. Democrats have found a weakness in their defense and they’re supposed to just move on? What? We don’t want to hurt their feelings?! 

Or is it we don’t want to call out the sane washing that’s occurred in the media by forcing them to treat Newsom the same way? Shit, the author even talked about the sane washing in the article. So why does Newsom’s self obvious parady make him feel uncomfortable enough to say Newsom „should move on“?

Can you imagine this in 1944? „Well, the allied commanders found a weakness in the German defenses and exploited it for a week but we feel like they have made their point and should move on. Better to just dig in now and stop pressing the attack into the German manufacturing base.“ 

Great article. A good chunk truly don’t get it, much of how they didn’t understand Colbert Report was a parody of O’Reiley/Fox types. But the vast majority do know. And they know they’ve hitched their entire souls to stumbling, bumbling moroj, because he’s the type of racist and bigot they’ve always wanted. And Newsome’s satire shows that no one can seriously think Trump is anything but awful and dumb as fuck. But it exposes that he’s an outlet for their hate.