Gov. Newsom Funds $33k for Self-Portrait in State Budget, But No Money for Wildfires
If he could, he’d put his face on California money
By Katy Grimes, January 22, 2026 7:59 am
California Governor Gavin Newsom has budgeted $33,000 for a self-portrait, but no money for wildfires. Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton weighs in on this below.
It’s one line in an expenditure schedule. Page 227 of the Governors Budget Summary, Item 0720. There are no other details yet on the proposal.
🚨 $33,000 of YOUR MONEY ON A GAVIN NEWSOM PORTRAIT!!
Gavin Newsom is using your money to pay for a new self-portrait. Guess what? I already have a FREE portrait for you. Here you go, Gavin! pic.twitter.com/THnySgwvah
— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) January 21, 2026
Someone on X asked if Hunter Biden is the artist.
This isn’t Gavin Newsom’s first photo shoot.
Remember when “Gavin Newsom’s office hires famed photographer for $200,000 a year?” Even Politico noted that “The California governor is increasingly relying on in-house staff to showcase his accomplishments.”
That was when we saw Gavin’s glamour shots along the Great Wall of China on his world tour:
President Donald Trump’s White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly wondered yesterday in Davos, why Newsom “is frolicking around Switzerland instead of fixing the many problems he created in California.”
The list of terribly important California issues is long and serious, and his bad policy decisions list is as long. Governor Newsom’s California, can be partially summed up this way in this incomplete list of disastrous policy decisions:
- Perpetual water rationing
- Highest taxes in the nation
- Billionaires and businesses fleeing to other states
- California’s crime problem: Gov. Newsom announced in 2020 he planned to close two state prisons – he has closed five – and all three state-run juvenile prisons.
- Cities in decline
- public employee labor unions striking/shaking down taxpayers
- mentally-ill, drug addicted homeless population living on and littering streets with feces and drug needles
- Wildfires in Los Angeles – cities still not rebuilt
- ongoing attempts at reparations for descendants of slaves
- $8.00-$12.00 per-gallon-gas coming, courtesy of Gavin Newsom, who has forced oil companies to shutdown refineries.
- porn in K-12 curriculum – masturbation instructions in middle school
- State mandated secrecy of gender transitioning children from parents
- public school teachers strikes
- energy shortage, rolling blackouts
- Newsom’s COVID 3-year State of Emergency order from March 2020 until the end of February 2023
- Newsom’s Vaccine mandates for school children, days after opposing one for prison guards
- Newsom signed AB 5 into law, killing off the state’s independent contractors
- Newsom’s $1.5 billion no-bid contract for masks from Chinese electric bus company BYD
- Gun control bills overturned by federal judges. Again. Again. Again.
- Newsom’s own Ministry of Truth – his “Commission on the State of Hate,” he created via Executive Order also establishes the state’s first Racial Equity Commission
- Gov. Newsom tried to pass a Tax on ‘Windfall Profits’ on Oil Companies
- Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry moment wasn’t confined to dining out – besides multiple vacations out of the country while he locked down Californians. In Feb. 2022 he starred in “MaskGate” at the NFC Championship game in Los Angeles – despite his own face mask mandates.
- Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 145 by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) which lowers the penalties for adults who have sex with same-sex minors – this means the new law allows a 24 year old to have sex with a 14 year old and escape a felony conviction and requirement to be a registered sex offender.
- Newsom gifted free Medi-Cal coverage to every illegal immigrant in the state, costing taxpayers $10 billion to $12 billion. Very recently, Newsom admitted the state’s Medi-Cal program for low-income Californians is insolvent. His solution? Newsom is going to cut Medi-Cal to any poor or disabled elderly Californian who has $2,000 in “assets.”
This is a partial list of serious issues in California – there is much more. But Gavin’s priorities include a $33,000 self-portrait.
If Newsom could, he’d put his face on California money.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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Here’s all we need to know :
“President Donald Trump’s White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly wondered yesterday in Davos, why Newsom “is frolicking around Switzerland instead of fixing the many problems he created in California.”
The narcissist boy-Governor is galavanting around Davos as part of his Presidential aspiration campaign, to collect his checks from the WEF/CCP/Soros and get his marching orders for the next planned chapter of his economic reign of horrors….
Rather than doing the hard work of repairing and rebuilding homes in the Palisades/Malibu/Altadena and elsewhere, this jackass “Governor’ is planning more self-aggrandizement and self-promotion on the global stage…
His CNN interviews are a complete sh!tshow of Trump Derangement Syndrome and the narcissist calling out the other narcissist… that may be true, but at least Trump is pursuing economic policies that HELP American citizens, unlike Newsom’s, which are HARMING California citizens, both legal AND illegal….
Katy Grimes: “If Newsom could, he’d put his face on California money.”
That is FUNNY. And true. Sure hope you didn’t give him any ideas. After all, in addition to the portrait, and the infamous I’m-a-fashion-model vanity photos at the Great Wall of China, didn’t we see elsewhere and read at the Globe too that Gruesome used the crooked behested payment scam to self-commission a $100,000 bust of himself (as mayor) that as we speak sits in SF City Hall? What a horse’s ass he is. As you know.
Pffft… $33K is pocket change for the BILLIONS of dollars that it will take to rebuild the Palisades/Malibu/Altadena burn-outs…
This asshat doesn’t know how to balance his own checkbook, let alone a budget for a state as complex as California and that’s true – don’t give him any more ideas for self-promotion about putting his ugly mug on California currency (which will be worthless anyways, because California’s “community organizers” cannot manage anything more complicated than a lemonade stand…
I will go for this as long as it is accurate. It needs to show him fiddling while the state burns and with a dog collar and leash held by both Xi and Soros. It should have a back ground of a homeless camp.
I think this answers my question that I asked in a recently posted story on Newsom’s trip to Davos? Who paid for this trip? Most likely us the taxpayers!
33 thousand bucks for a vanity portrait! There are many better options for that money, let’s just say I would rather see it spent on other wasteful things like streets paved in gold or a study on gay squirrels or can pigs really fly!
This is what happens when fools get elected to positions of power.
For those interested in psycho analyzing this scum bag, here is the AI analysis. Personally, I could not care less about Newscum’s antics, just his stupid policies:
What type of personality results from a mixture of narcissism and megalomania?
How does this personality type apply to GAVIN NEWSOM?
ChatGPT said:
A mix of narcissism (grand self-focus, need for admiration) and megalomania (delusions or fantasies of vast power, importance, or destiny) isn’t a single official diagnosis, but it’s commonly described in a few overlapping ways—depending on how extreme and impairing it is.
Here are the main labels you’ll see used:
1. Grandiose Narcissism
This is the most common and accurate umbrella term.
Inflated sense of self-importance
Belief in being exceptional, chosen, or destined for greatness
Craves admiration and loyalty
Dismissive of criticism
May exaggerate achievements or influence
Think: “I’m not just special—I’m meant to rule / lead / save / dominate.”
2. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Grandiose Type)
If the traits are persistent, rigid, and damaging to relationships or work, clinicians may consider this diagnosis.
Lack of empathy
Entitlement
Exploitative behavior
Fantasies of unlimited success, power, or brilliance
Megalomania often shows up here as power fantasies, not necessarily psychosis.
3. Malignant Narcissism (informal but widely used)
This is a darker blend sometimes used in psychology literature.
Narcissism + aggression + paranoia + lack of remorse
Strong “us vs. them” thinking
Desire to dominate rather than just be admired
This term is descriptive, not diagnostic, but it captures the mix people often mean when they say “narcissist with delusions of grandeur.”
4. Delusional or Psychotic Features (in rare cases)
If megalomania crosses into fixed, false beliefs (e.g., believing one literally controls world events or has supernatural powers), clinicians may look beyond personality disorders to:
Delusional disorder, grandiose type
Bipolar disorder (during manic episodes)
Psychotic disorders
In those cases, it’s no longer just personality—it’s a break from reality.
Plain-English summary
Most of the time, a narcissism + megalomania mix is best described as:
Grandiose narcissism
or, if severe and harmful,
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (grandiose or malignant presentation)
If you’re asking because you’re trying to understand someone’s behavior (a public figure, a boss, a family member), I can help you map specific traits you’re seeing to these categories—or explain how people like this tend to act in relationships, leadership roles, or under stress.
Using Gavin Newsom to illustrate the narcissism + megalomania blend (as observers often describe it)
When people point to Gavin Newsom in this context, they’re usually reacting to a style of leadership and self-presentation, not a medical condition.
1. Grandiose Narcissism (the most common frame used)
Observers who see this pattern in Newsom often point to:
Strong self-focus and confidence in his role on the national stage
Comfort positioning himself as a symbol of a larger cause (e.g., “California as the future of America”)
Polished charisma and media fluency
Framing criticism as ignorance, bad faith, or moral failure
This fits what psychologists call grandiose narcissistic traits:
High confidence + belief in exceptional status + desire to be seen as historically significant.
In plain terms:
“I’m not just governing a state—I’m shaping the national future.”
2. Megalomania-lite: Power and Destiny Narratives
Where critics bring in megalomania is usually around rhetoric and ambition, not delusion.
Examples people cite:
Acting as a de facto national opposition leader while still governor
Campaign-style messaging aimed beyond California
Presenting policies as morally inevitable or historically necessary
This reads to critics as:
A sense of personal destiny
Belief that larger forces revolve around their leadership
Framing political disagreements as existential battles
Important distinction:
👉 This is not psychotic megalomania—it’s political grandiosity, which is extremely common in high-level politicians.
3. Why supporters and critics see him so differently
This personality mix creates a sharp split in perception:
Supporters see:
Confidence
Vision
Willingness to challenge opponents head-on
“Presidential” presence
Critics see:
Vanity
Self-promotion
Performative leadership
A tendency to govern symbolically rather than pragmatically
Same behaviors, radically different interpretations.
4. Malignant Narcissism?
Some critics go further and use this term—but psychologists are careful here.
Why people say it:
Aggressive rhetoric toward opponents
Moral absolutism (“we’re right, they’re dangerous”)
Willingness to polarize
Why clinicians would hesitate:
No clear evidence of sadism, paranoia, or loss of reality
Behavior remains strategic and reality-based
So this label is rhetorical, not clinical.
Bottom line (clean and honest)
If Gavin Newsom is used as an example in discussions about narcissism + megalomania, the most accurate framing is:
Grandiose narcissistic leadership style with strong ambition and power symbolism
Not:
A mental illness
Not delusional megalomania
Not a clinical diagnosis
This kind of personality is over represented in politics, especially among people positioning themselves for national leadership.