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  • 6/9/2025
Speaking to reporters at an "Invest America" roundtable at the White House, President Trump slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).
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00:00but that way we'll soon find out yeah please
00:02Mr. President in 2020 when you were talking about unrest in American cities you said quote
00:07we have to go by the laws we can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor
00:12what change now why is this situation different to not consult with Governor Newsom about this
00:17well the biggest change from that statement is we have an incompetent governor so I talked about
00:22governors but I didn't talk about he's an incompetent governor look at the job he's doing
00:25in California he's destroying one of our great states and if I didn't get involved if we didn't
00:31bring the guard in and we would bring more in if we needed it because we have to make sure there's
00:36going to be law and order you had a disaster happening and they now admit it was a disaster
00:43I watched the chief yesterday who's a good man by the way and he said well we're lucky we did this
00:49because they would have they were overwhelmed you saw what was happening so we did the right thing
00:54everybody agrees to that but you have a governor who let the city burn down didn't didn't want water
01:01to be sent down to him and I sent billions of gallons of water I said I wanted to do it in the
01:07first term he wouldn't do it over I don't know they have environmental reasons but there were no
01:12environmental reasons it's uh I think it's just a political philosophy but um it's lucky for the
01:19people in Los Angeles and in California that we did what we did we got it just in time it's still
01:25simmering a little bit but not very much yeah and what crime has he committed that would warrant his
01:30arrest what crime has governor Newsom committed the crime has he committed yeah to warrant his arrest
01:36as you I think his primary primary crime is running for governor because he's done such a bad job
01:42what he's done to that state is like what Biden did to this country and uh that's pretty bad it's the
01:49wrong philosophy uh thousands hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants many of them prisoners are
01:57taking up your health care they're taking up your space in schools they're taking up your hospital
02:01and in many cases they're criminals and we have to do something about it and we're doing something
02:08about it I want to thank the incredible patriots of ice and Tom Holman who has been incredible and
02:15Kristi Noem likewise incredible uh the job they're doing and we it's like an unforced error there was no
02:23reason for this 21 million people were allowed into our country and many of those people were criminals
02:29and it's a shame it's a shame but we're getting them out and uh I will say it's I think it's a 95 to
02:37five issue just like so many other issues 95 five and the Democrats lost an election in a landslide
02:44because they're on the wrong side of the issues I mean there's these it's not even conceivable that
02:50somebody would do the kind of things that he did and then you know you talk about projects they want to
02:56build a train going from San Francisco to LA and it's costing hundreds of billions of dollars more than
03:02they thought it was going to cost it's not even believable to Brad and to people sitting here would
03:07you believe that a train it was going to cost x dollars and it might be a hundred times x would
03:14have paid for this for about 50 million American children you're right 50 million American children
03:20instead of a three-mile taint train track that never got built we could have put Lincoln in charge with
03:25no experience you would have done a good job I guarantee you that all right

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