Gavin Newsom

He didn't even claim there's no pretext anymore.

Let's disabuse ourselves that there has to be a pretext with Donald Trump, that there's anything that would justify that.

There's no existing protest at a federal building.

There's no operation that's being impeded.

I guess it's just a training ground for the president of the United States.

It is grossly illegal.

It's immoral.

It's rather delusional.

And increasingly, this president appears

unhinged, unmoored by reality and facts, seems listless.

He seems, dare I say, in decline, cognitively and, dare I say, forgive me, perhaps unfair, physically.

And these are just rantings of someone that needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

A declaration of independence.

against the tyranny, against lawlessness in the context that there was no rule of law.

It was the rule of king.

And I think increasingly people are waking up to the rule of law in this country increasingly appearing to be the rule of Don.

And I hope it's dawning on people how precious this moment is and what's at stake.

And so I hope people put a stake in the ground, take the opportunity and time to participate this weekend, but again, do so peacefully with a deep realization of the consequences.

on what the founding fathers were all about.

I don't think it needs any deeper explanation.