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This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

Governor Gavin Newpom finally got the reflection with President Donald Trump, who he wants.

Their carefully calibrated truce, forged after the devastating fires in January in Los Angeles, appeared in order to be needed over the weekend when Trump sent the National Guard to California in the city Against Newsom’s wishes to extinguish protests to implement immigration.

Newsom’s fierce reaction, sometimes vitriol, comparing Trump with a dictator and calls it a “stone cold liar” for an alleged misconduct between them – returns to the immediate after the election in November, when the governor was ready to to accept national leadership in resistance to the second Trump administration. Just two days after Trump’s re -election, Newsom virtually invited a confrontation with the president from Announcing a special legislative session to set aside funding for court disputes against the federal government.

This provocation was realized seven months later with troops on the streets and a In anticipation of a court challenge to the President’s constitutional body.

“Many of you have called me as” it’s too extreme. Shouldn’t you work with Donald Trump during his transition? “When I called this special session,” Newsom told a reporter During an interview Sunday night with Fox La. “We knew something would happen. But I have to say that I never expected Donald Trump to do this.”

NEWSOM united the Californians and its liberal base with its open challenge, even sending a fundraising email on Sunday morning to unfold the National Guard. However, posing, however, puts both the governor and his country with an increasing risk of repression.

Matt Rodriguez, a longtime democratic consultant who has worked in state and national policy, said it was difficult to challenge the president as he possessed most cards and tends to return twice as difficult.

“I just didn’t see anyone come out aggressive against Trump, where it works,” Rodriguez said. “It’s a bit like getting into a brick battle with the owner of the brick.”

Trump threatens to arrest Newsom

Trump who has already considered Wide Funding in CaliforniaHe said on Monday that he supported Newsom’s arrest to deal with protests.

“I would do it,” the president told reporters at the South Meadow of the White House. “Gavin likes publicity, but I think it would be a great thing. He did a terrible job. Look, I like Gavin Newom, he’s a nice person, but he’s grossly incompetent.”

The White House did not answer email questions about Newsom’s criticism if it would have an impact on federal recovery after wild fires in Los Angeles or whether Trump still believes he can work with the governor forward.

Just four months ago the two men Embraced on the asphalt in lax While Trump arrived in Los Angeles to tour the fire area. The short but warm greeting where Trump has promised to “take care of things” as if resetting their tense relationships.

Newsom followed by Traveling to Washington, County Colombia To meet the president in the oval office and lobby for federal help. Trump stopped referring to the governor as a “newspaper” and promised that “La Fire Fix” cameS

Peace couldn’t stay forever. At the end of April Newsom judges to stop Trump’s new tariffs, although at that time he said he was trying to maintain his relationship with the president and Avoid battles that were only a virtue signalingWhich would invite a negative reaction.

While the weeks were wore, Newsom became more involved with the promotion of California Nearly two dozens of court cases Against the Federal Government, he abandoned his strategy to criticize the Trump administration, while avoiding mentioning Trump himself. President returned to call the governor “Newscum” when they stood up to Over an athlete from a transsexual high school Last month, he also repeatedly used the term online when he published about protests in Los Angeles. When CNN reports on Friday that Trump prepares a a large -scale cancellation of federal grants For California, Newsom suggested that the state should Stop paying taxesS

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LAPD officers collide with demonstrators during an immigrant right protest in downtown Los Angeles on June 8, 2025. Photo of Ted Soki for CalMatters

But this weekend marks a clear public tear, with Newsom lobbing some of its most ranked denations recorded by the president. In a series of media interviews, the governor has repeatedly said that the Trump federalization of the National Guard of California is authoritarian, accusing him of inflammation of violence in order to be dispelled by his “catastrophic presidency” and expressed doubts about his mental fitness.

The governor’s service continued to repost excerpts from these interviews in his social media accounts throughout Monday, along with unpleasant return Republican critics. A governor spokesman declined to discuss his replacement in the Trump approach, although Newsom himself downplayed the potential consequences for Fox La.

“Pick up the bear? Are you kidding?” he said. “You mean to stand up for principles, to stand up for honor and decency, to stand up for the rule of law. Travel the bear? Come on.”

Trump seems to divert the focus during the bad news cycle

Dan Snur, a former republican communication strategist who is now taught at UC Berkeley, Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California, said Trump could use his clash as a justification to refuse wild fire help or otherwise punish California.

But the president was clearly itching for a feud to shake a brutal news cycle focused on his Tax Plan and Expenditure To Raise Deficit And his felling with advisor Elon Musk, he added Kadur, and there was not much Newsom to do to calm him down because Trump wanted to make an example of California.

“If you give the mouse a cookie, it will want a glass of milk,” Krahur said.

Meanwhile, the stubborn rejection of Trump on Newsom can further burn his A reputation at the highest level of democratic contender If he plans to run for president in 2028

“Some potential candidates are exporting speeches. Others are introducing legislation,” Krahur said. “Newsom pulls Trump to arrest him.”

The longer the turmoil in Los Angeles continues, the greater the risk to Newsom. Rodriguez warned that if the situation bursts into sustainable battles between law enforcement and protesters, with images of disorder and vandalism emitted around the world, it would undermine the more politically moderate character that this is this one NEWSOM has started cultivatingS

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The California Highway Patrol Soldiers are trying to clear the 101 highway demonstrators in the center of Los Angeles on June 8, 2025. A photo of Ted Soki for CalMatters

“There is a tick bomb,” Rodriguez said. “Chaos just is never a good slogan for a selected employee, regardless of the reason.”

NEWSOM seemed aware of this puzzle this weekend as it was tormented to condemn the destruction of personal property and to express its admiration for the National Guard against the backdrop of his extensive cosmetic. He even offered a small olive branch to the president, promising to continue to help federal immigration authorities with the deportment of immigrants released from the California closed system.

“I’m not sitting here, I argue about criminals in our backyard,” he told Fox La. “Of course, we believe in the rules and laws of immigration.”

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