Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci made a wild claim about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political future amid his clash with President Donald Trump over this weekend’s riots in Los Angeles.
Newsom continued to taunt Trump Monday afternoon after the president returned to the White House and threatened to arrest the Democratic California governor.
Scaramucci, who was hired and fired by Trump in a period of 10 days in 2017, saw Newsom’s political stock rising.
‘This whole fiasco could make Gavin president,’ Scaramucci posted to X Monday morning.
Scaramucci has supported Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, since his brief tenure in the first Trump White House.
‘Gavin has the guts to stand up to these wannabe authoritarians. I will give him that,’ Scaramucci posted Sunday night.
Scaramucci highlighted a post from Newsom saying that Trump sending 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles County was ‘not to meet an unmet need, but to manufacture a crisis.’
‘He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control. Stay calm. Never use violence. Stay peaceful,’ Newsom said.
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci made a wild claim about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s clash with President Donald Trump over this weekend’s riots in Los Angeles
‘This whole fiasco could make Gavin president,’ Anthony Scaramucci posted to X early Monday morning. Trump was worried about having to run in 2024 against Newsom, but President Joe Biden stayed in the race too long for the Democrats to have a primary
On Monday Scaramucci reposted Newsom’s demand to have the California National Guard returned to the governor’s authority.
‘I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command. We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,’ the Democrat said.
‘This is a serious breach of state sovereignty – inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed. Rescind the order. Return control to California,’ Newsom demanded.
Newsom continued to admonish Trump throughout Monday.
‘The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation – this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism,’ Newsom wrote after Trump made his threat on the South Lawn.
Newsom was the one Democratic candidate Trump feared when running against Biden – and later Harris – in the 2024 race, according to Alex Isenstadt’s book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power.
The ex-president worried that Biden could drop out of the race cuing a Democratic primary.
Instead Biden dropped out of the race so late that the party quickly got behind Harris.
President Donald Trump (left) alongside Anthony Scaramucci (right), who served as White House communications director in 2017 for just 10 days. Scaramucci has been supportive of Democratic candidates since leaving the Trump White House
President Donald Trump threatened to arrest California Gov. Gavin Newsom, making the comments to reporters on the South Lawn Monday afternoon after returning from Camp David
‘One person he had been worried about was California Governor Gavin Newsom. Always fixated on visuals, Trump thought the handsome, hair-gelled governor was “slick” and the future of the Democratic Party,’ Isenstadt wrote.
Trump was also annoyed that Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity woud keep having Newsom on his primetime show, Isenstadt said.
But in November of 2023, Newsom debated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was running against Trump in the Republican primary.
Trump, reportedly, wasn’t impressed.
He thought Newsom had ‘bombed,’ Isenstadt wrote.
‘Ron’s an idiot, he doesn’t have what it takes. But I thought Newsom would be better,’ Trump said at the time, according to Isenstadt’s account.
