President Donald Trump tore into California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) in a Tuesday post on his Truth Social platform, but the two-term Democratic governor didn't take the attack quietly.
The president began his post by attacking Newsom's plan to build low-income housing in the Los Angeles area, and for "not accepting Hundreds of Millions of Gallons of Water from the Pacific Northwest" in the wake of the fires that consumed large portions of L.A. earlier this year.
Trump also predicted that Newsom building low-income housing in a "Super Luxury Pacific Palisades Fire Site" would be politically damaging, and that the federal government had issued housing construction permits at a faster rate than Newsom's own office. He wrote: "[Low-income housing construction' is what caused the destruction of the Late, Great New York City Mayor John Lindsay’s Political Career — and John Lindsay was a Republican."
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Newsom issued a blistering takedown of Trump's claims on his own X account. He highlighted certain lines of the president's Truth Social post and wrote "LIE" next to them while fact-checking each claim. The California governor began by saying claims that wealthy neighborhoods were being re-zoned for low-income housing were "conspiracy theories." He also pointed out that no water from the Pacific Northwest connected to Los Angeles.
"The Governor does not issue housing permits, L.A. city and L.A. county do," Newsom wrote. "They've issue[d] 885+."
Newsom also noted that the federal government does not issue housing construction permits. In his fact-check, he wrote: "There is no such thing as a federal housing permit. They have been 'approved' because they DO NOT EXIST."
"Take your dementia meds, grandpa," Newsom tweeted. "You are making things up again."
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