{"id":89068,"date":"2025-12-10T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89068\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:54:10","slug":"california-governor-gavin-newsom-mocks-donald-trumps-desperate-plea-to-stop-talking-about-his-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89068\/","title":{"rendered":"California Governor Gavin Newsom Mocks Donald Trump\u2019s Desperate Plea to Stop Talking About His Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is testing 79-year-old President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that discussing his rapidly deteriorating physical health may constitute a high crime. <\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it\u2019s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean \u2018THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES\u2019,\u201d the president wrote on Truth Social in a lengthy post<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The nearly 500-word post listed a string of far-fetched claims that the president argued should convince the public he is at the top of his game, from supposedly working the \u201clongest\u201d hours ever to, as he put it, creating an \u201c\u2018aura\u2019 around the United States\u201d that has earned worldwide respect. <\/p>\n

But not even the president\u2019s declaration that \u201cwe should do something\u201d about the \u201ctreasonous\u201d questions over his health was enough to stop the mockery. <\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump is in poor physical health,\u201d Newsom immediately shot back on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"TrumpTrump raged against reports of his declining health in this lengthy post. Donald Trump\/Truth Social \"GavinThe California governor immediately challenged Trump’s claim that questioning his health might be “seditious.” X\/Gavin Newsom <\/p>\n

The president\u2019s initial post came in response to a Monday op-ed in The New York Times in which journalist Frank Bruni argued Trump\u2019s \u201capproval ratings have declined in recent months, and so, by the looks of things, has his vigor.\u201d<\/p>\n

A late November poll by Gallup<\/a> put the president\u2019s approval ratings at 36 percent, marking the lowest point of his second term following a steady decline since he took office again in January, and only two points above his all-time low of 34 percent in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot in 2021.<\/p>\n

Concerns are piling up over the state of the president\u2019s physical health as he exhibits symptoms such as visible swelling in his legs, attributed by the White House to a chronic venous condition common in men of his age, along with mysterious bruising on his right hand and a growing habit of falling asleep at official meetings. <\/p>\n

In October, he attended the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what was confusingly billed as a second \u201cannual\u201d physical following his first earlier in April. It was later revealed to have been for an MRI to check his \u201ccardiovascular and abdominal health,\u201d according to the White House. The president himself had told reporters he had \u201cno idea\u201d what the scan was for. <\/p>\n

Pundits and mental health experts have also sounded the alarm over increasing signs of a decline in the president\u2019s cognitive state, following a spate of public appearances where he\u2019s seemed to suffer from memory lapses, verbal incoherence, and repeated confusion. <\/p>\n

Dr. John Gartner, a former professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins, told The Daily Beast Podcast last month<\/a> these would appear to represent \u201cclinical signs of dementia,\u201d in turn exacerbating what he believes to be the president\u2019s underlying \u201cmalignant\u201d personality disorder. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever personality issues or problems [people with dementia] have begin to deteriorate and they become even more crude, disorganized, aggressive, confused versions of that personality disorder,\u201d Gartner said. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s bouts of confused aggression have indeed fueled headlines lately, such as when he told a female journalist to be \u201cquiet, piggy,\u201d called for Democratic lawmakers to be executed and, only on Monday, claimed media coverage of his declining health by \u201chorrible, biased, and untruthful\u201d outlets may no longer be covered by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Gov. Gavin Newsom is testing 79-year-old President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that discussing his rapidly deteriorating physical health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,3882,457,24359,2805],"class_list":["post-89068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-maga","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}