Gov. Gavin Newsom glamour shot at the Great Wall of China 10/26/2023 (Photo: gov.ca.gov)
Is California Governor Gavin Newsom an Economic Illiterate or Just Deceitful?
The California median home price is $909,400
By Katy Grimes, April 22, 2025 2:45 am
California Governor Gavin Newsom is showing the breadth of his economic illiteracy – or just plain old political deceit.
Last week, Gov. Newsom and State Attorney General Rob Bonta sued President Donald Trump over his tariff’s – the first state in the country to do so.
“According to the suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, they argue that the tariffs are illegal because, under the U.S. Constitution, only Congress has the power to put tariffs into place.”
“President Trump’s unlawful tariffs are wreaking chaos on California families, businesses, and our economy — driving up prices and threatening jobs,” Newsom said in a statement. “We’re standing up for American families who can’t afford to let the chaos continue. No state is poised to lose more than the state of California.”
Then Gavin Newsom whined that his own 4 kids have lots of cheep toys from China under the Christmas Tree, so the U.S. needs to keep the cheap crap from China rolling in: “I’ve got four kids, 80% of their toys under the Christmas tree come from China. I’ve got family members that live paycheck to paycheck, many family members.”
Let’s analyze Gov. Newsom’s statement:
“President Trump’s unlawful tariffs are wreaking chaos on California families, businesses, and our economy — driving up prices and threatening jobs,” Newsom said in a statement. “We’re standing up for American families who can’t afford to let the chaos continue.”
Newsom claimed that “tariffs are wreaking chaos on California families.”
What is “wreaking chaos on California families?”
Let’s start with the fact that a tariff is not a tax on the American people. More on that below.
Next, the California median home price in 2024 was $869,500, forecasted to rise 4.6 percent to $909,400 in 2025. That’s nearly $1 Million for a basic home. How does a teacher, office worker, court clerk, grocery worker, truck driver, press operator, drywall contractor, warehouse worker, landscaper or housekeeper buy a $1 million home?
These average Californians don’t buy California homes. They can’t and never will at $909,400. Instead they move out of California, taking California’s strength and backbone to other states.
Gavin Newsom has never bought into American trade agreements – he’s been a China hustler for years.
Remember Gavin Newsom’s campaign trip to China in 2023? Newsom’s vanity trip complete with a glamour photo shoot at the Great Wall of China, “exposed what an unserious but ambitious politician he really is – governing a big state just isn’t fun, after all. Working to be a statesman isn’t as rewarding as being a high-level office holder for Gavin. The timing of his trip was obviously designed to meet with China General Secretary Xi Jinping ahead of President Joe Biden’s scheduled meeting in San Francisco at the APEC Summit next month.”
As the Globe reported, for Newsom, who doth protested he wasn’t running for President in 2024, was sure making a lot of moves which served only to elevate his profile but had no benefit at all for his home state of California.
Fortunately for everyone paying attention, Gavin Newsom showed what Big-Hat-No-Cattle he really is.
As for Newsom’s China connections, think back recently to fall of 2024 when Gov. Newsom’s trip to China was sold to the media as a “climate-focused tour,” centered on electric vehicles providing a greener environment free from fossil fuels. However, what Newsom failed to address with China General Secretary Xi Jinping is that China produces more global emissions than any other country on earth. When Newsom declared that “foundational and fundamental issues” are climate change, it’s curious that he did not inquire about China’s expansion of approximately two new coal plants a week.
Newsom is no newcomer to China’s economic influences.
In “Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All,” authors Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree expose then-Mayor Gavin Newsom’s cozy relationship with the Chinese community in tSan Francisco and his ties to Chinese Communist Party-related businesses.
Crabtree and McFatter expose that “Newsom came into office as San Francisco’s mayor in 2004 after receiving strong support from Chinese voters, enough so that he celebrated his victory in Chinatown and the authors write that from an early point in his tenure he was ready to “go full steam ahead with Chinatown’s interests,” Fox reported.
“One of those interests, according to Chapter 3 of the book, was a nonprofit organization initiative started by Newsom called ChinaSF that the book argues served as a gateway for CCP officials and Chinese criminals to exploit California.”
“The U.S. imposes only an average 2% tariff on imported industrial goods, while many other countries have both high tariffs and nontariff trade barriers. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the merchandise trade deficit has exploded under President Biden, reaching a yearly record $1.2 trillion in 2022 and hitting a July record of $103 billion in 2024.”
“Despite promises that free trade can benefit everyone and that the gains offset any losses, the average American has experienced stagnating income and wide-spread job losses in manufacturing hours while the top earners have seen disproportionate income gains,” ProsperousAmerica.org reports. “The top 10% benefit do not experience the job losses from import competition that the working class suffers from. And those at the top of the corporate ladders benefit from the lower wages needed to pay workers in developing countries compared to what they would have to pay Americans.”
This imbalance has been devastating for U.S. industry. Since the North American trade agreement (NAFTA) was passed by the Clinton Administration in 1993, millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost, a huge trade deficit emerged and American manufacturing wages declined.
Gavin Newsom was silent on NAFTA – other than to burnish his globalist chops.
As President Trump lowers marginal tax rates, unleashes the many sources of abundant U.S. energy, and cuts regulations, the cost of everything will decrease, while his tariffs will increase costs on overseas manufacturing. Jobs will be created and manufacturing will come back to the U.S., and those are high-paying jobs with benefits.
Gavin Newsom is silent on that global trade – the trade that benefits America and American workers – other than to demand California’s ability to trade freely globally – outside of the federal government.
“Free trade should apply first and foremost to domestic trade because we should be focused on benefiting our own citizens before we worry about those overseas. We don’t hate foreigners—we just love Americans more,” Heritage Foundation Economist E.J. Antoni explains.
Batya Ungar-Sargon explained beautifully the Trump economy and tariffs:
“You know, the thing that your viewers have to understand is, we were all there in 2018, in 2019, when President Trump put 25% tariffs on Chinese imports of steel and aluminum, and every economist said a toaster is going to cost $300. And guess what? The price of steel and aluminum went up for three months and it came right back down because this is a glorious country full of free market competition within the United States.
Remember, California Governor Gavin Newsom is also creating energy poverty with 3,200-foot setbacks around oil and gas wells, the Globe reported. With Phillips 66 pulling out of Los Angeles, and Valero closing its Benicia refinery, Chevron leaving the state, California is about to experience fuel shortages – serious shortages.
Is Governor Gavin Newsom economically illiterate, or is he using deceit to destroy California? Either way, Newsom is creating in a dangerous, unstable California.
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Gavin Newsom is and has always been a petulant child who’s never had to worry about money thanks to his family’s Getty oil connections. He was a “ disciple “ of Willy Brown, one of the slimiest dirt bag politicians in the history of California where Newsom learned the art of manipulation. Newsom has risen very quickly through the ranks leaving nothing but devastation and ruin in his wake. As mayor he turned a once beautiful city of San Francisco into a cesspool it is now. He skated through Lt. Governor of California and is now ready to exit the Governor’s Mansion successfully crippling the once Golden State. He’s dead set on running for president and May indeed become the Democratic nominee, the GOP will a strong candidate to stop him. As much as I detest this petulant and rotten to the core individual the one thing I will never do is UNDERESTIMATE Gavin Newsom, he hasa unique ability to literally lie his way out of any situation and I wouldn’t put it past him to lie his way into the White House.
My money is on deceit, with a huge dollop of narcissism. I believe everything about Gavin Newsom is clearly understood by his narcissistic personality disorder.
Both.
Newsom is a demon who lies like a demon. He needs to be hauled before a tribunal and be held accountable for his many crimes against humanity. He and his wretched soul have a lot to account for.
I think Newsolini wears deceit and illiteracy equally well, with rolled up sleeves of course.
I only take Newsolini and his lies seriously when his sleeves are rolled up while wearing his aviators.
Katy always does a fine job summarizing the sliminess of Gavin Newsom.
There is breaking news here, Newsom proclaims he has relatives living paycheck to paycheck! Do you think he feels their pain? Sure he does (snark) as he explains where will his kids Christmas toys come from? No more cheap Chinese toys for you dear my dear children!
The best this guy can come up with to feel our pain, is to exclaim, no more cheap stuff from China, little people.
Newsflash, the cheap stuff comes with a great price just ask the people of Xinjiang, where the Uyghurs in work camps make those products. Never mind that little Gavi Jr. has the newest latest Xbox, big spender Gavi Sr. can buy him 2!
Newsom only knows one thing, how to destroy a thriving economy. Newsom has no vision for a thriving economy for California or the United States. The proof is the pudding!
We can do better, we must do better. Newsom and his ilk must be turfed out of public office.
Newscum staked his political future on China’s economy remaining strong. This will end up being his economic Waterloo. Just like the mainstream media fake news, China’s fake economy is imploding…..President Trump knows this…..China has to make a trade deal; their retaliations to his tariffs are just bullets with no gunpowder:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-economic-dire-straits-and-theyre-no-longer-able-hide-it
I just have to add this link. It illustrates the “genius” named, Gavin Newsom!
Full, stop, period!
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5260637-newsom-calls-democrats-reflection/
He states, the 107 day Harris Campaign was run brilliantly
Oh BARF… this guy is a political chameleon without ANY morals, scruples or backbone besides the unbridled lust for POWER and MONEY associated with said power…
Oh, and kickbacks from the CCP to be their “business development advisor” for all their “Belt and Road” initatives…
DO NOT LET HIM ANYWHERE NEAR ANY ADDITIONAL POLITICAL INFLUENCE – this guy is a MALIGNANT NARCISSIST!
Sociopath. He will do or say anything to get what he wants. The story about the Chinese lab in the Valley got buried. As well as his mask deal with CHINA during Covid. But he keeps getting the votes. I only hope the rest of the Nation is not as stupid as most of California voters are. My guess is that he will run for Senate.
Just like his Aunt Nancy. And I believe he went to China to garner financial support from the CCP for his run for the WH in ‘28
When Newsom refers to the tariffs hurting farmers and manufacturers, what he really means is the Wonderful Company and BYD Motors.
Gavin’s “economics” are quite different from the rest of us. He relies on handouts from his Globalist masters who do understand economics. They use puppets like Noisome to wage economic warfare on we the people. If he understands economics or not is a moot point. He is a man on a mission of destruction.
If Gov. Newsom takes medication to treat malignant omnipotence, it isn’t obvious.
Wow… great job everybody… every one of you articulated something I was going to mention, so let me just say that you all hit the nail right on the head….
Newsom is all-in on BYD and other globalist (WEF Young Global Leader alumni, remember?) entities and has DONE NOTHING to help LEGAL California citizens….
NOTHING!!!!
Klaus Schwab is kaputt and the WEF is scrambling as their utopian globalism agenda implodes:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/04/23/wef-investigating-founder-klaus-schwab-over-whistleblower-allegations/
What if this whole globalist movement was concocted based on this silly simplistic song? If so, I hope John Lennon is turning in his grave for all of the death and destruction he caused:
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
BTW, this song was used in the finale of the movie “The Killing Fields” about the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia who killed 1.5 to 2.0 million with the help of the CCP. And the killing goes on in Ukraine, where the globalists are controlling.
The answer is YES!
Newscum is a failure at everything.
Job creation. L
School dropout rate. L
Unemployment rate. L
Homelessness. L
Unemployment fraud. L
Cost of gasoline. L
Cost of electricity. L
Road condition. L
Business climate. L
Crime. L
Oil production. L
Oil refinery capacity. L
Percentage of people on public assistance. L
Poverty rate. L
Cost of living. L
Ledgerdemain is Newsom’s default MO and he appears to display sociopathic tendencies: An adroit and able politician he and he continues to prove this.
How on Earth, as Newsom stood there channeling his inner Joe Biden, couldn’t he possibly wonder why no one was attempting to breech the wall so as to enjoy the collective heel of his communist state hosts and ideological benefactors?
C) All of the above (and more, of a negative bent)
D) All of the above AND a clinically psychopathic narcissist
What can you expect of Newsom – he is a WEF “Young Global Leader”. He follows the dictates of Klaus Schwab and his buddy Justin Trudeau. Both were made WEF YGLs in 2008 in Davos. Source: http://www.maloneinstitute.org
If voters in California were required to show a valid I.D. to vote, NO ONE would know the name Gavin Newsom. He is THE most destructive politician, along with sleepy Joe Biden, in the history of the USA. And they both got to where they are by lying, stealing and selling their influence.