The MeidasTouch Podcast
Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops the Hammer on Trump on His Own Turf (Interview)
10 May 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas sits down with California Governor Gavin Newsom, who delivers a powerful and urgent warning about the catastrophic impact of Trump’s failed policies on California—and the entire country. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I'm joined by California's Governor Gavin Newsom. Governor, you are taking the fight against Donald Trump's disastrous economic policy to Trump's turf on Fox News. Tell us about what you're doing, Governor.
Well, it's getting really serious, and I don't think people fully have absorbed how serious. We're talking about school supplies not being on the shelves when kids come back from the summer. We're talking about just a few months away from having a real impact, quite literally, on toys being on people's shelves. We're seeing 60% decline in bookings for cargo, and California
is the recipient of 40% of the good movement coming into the United States and Long Beach and LA. So this is serious stuff. It's code red now. It's not just a yellow flag. And that's why we wanted to take this ad directly to Trump, knowing that he'll be watching Fox and have plenty of ample opportunities to understand and absorb the impacts.
Governor Donald Trump saying that if you're a little girl, you just got to be fine. You get one doll, you get one pencil, you're going to pay more for it and and just shut up. I mean, that's what he's saying. What do you think about that?
Will you imagine if Joe Biden said something like that, that the primetime lineup at Fox would be reacting to that? How it would light up every every one of the right wing networks? I mean, this is I mean, it's real. This is serious. And, you know, what happened yesterday was not very serious. And that was this so-called deal with the UK that actually hurts Americans.
American automobile manufacturers. Don't take my word for it. You saw GM and others came out with a statement saying this advantages imports of Range Rovers and Rolls Royces over American manufacturers. So it's time to sober up and it's time for this administration to sober up. They have done real damage and they cannot quickly undo that damage. And it's time to highlight the consequences.
We obviously filed the lawsuit. But I think now as consumers, we need to understand what Trump has done and the impacts, even if he reversed course tomorrow, the impacts of that over the course of the next few months.
What do you think they should do? I mean, obviously, this UK deal, to your point, the auto manufacturer is saying it's a disaster. I mean, they did this trade war against the world right now, and they seem to be a total mess. I don't even know what they're – do they think tariffs are great? They want to remove the – I don't even know what they're doing. What are they doing? What do you understand?
Yeah, look, if you use their theory of the case, if you want to impose tariffs to bring back manufacturing, industrial policy back to the United States of America, they have to be predictable. You have to have stability. You have to send a signal to small business owners that this is here to stay. And that means you have to radically change the way you're doing business. But every few hours,
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