Gov. Gavin Newsom with Texas Democrats. (Photo: CA Press office)
Greenberg: Newsom’s Behavior – A Need for Evaluation?
The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles in early 2025, displacing thousands and straining state resources, have spotlighted Newsom’s leadership disaster
By Richie Greenberg, October 27, 2025 9:00 am
Governor Gavin Newsom’s alarming behavioral transformation, especially in 2025—marked by erratic social media outbursts, grandiose self-depictions, and explosive accusations—demands medical and psychological evaluation.
It’s not just me that notices how he’s taken a stark shift.
His actions, a startling departure from his once-polished, policy-driven persona, align with symptoms of serious conditions like bipolar disorder, delusions of grandeur, or substance-induced psychosis, especially Adderall. The crushing weight of California’s cascading crises—wildfires, rampant drug dealing, soaring fentanyl deaths, record homelessness, sky-high gas prices, and the failed high-speed rail project—has intensified scrutiny on Newsom’s leadership failures, likely exacerbating underlying mental health issues. His compensatory, theatrical responses, coupled with a 250,000-follower surge on Twitter/X driven not by potential voters’ admiration but by the sadistic fascination with his apparent slow-motion meltdown, further suggest a psychological issue requiring urgent professional assessment to safeguard his well-being and therefore California’s stability.
Newsom’s social media presence on Twitter/X has become a frantic spectacle of all-caps rants and provocative memes. Posts like “WOW!!! MY MAPS… WILL SOON PASS IN THE GREATEST LEGISLATURE” exude manic energy, characterized by exaggerated self-importance and relentless engagement. This hyperactivity, suggesting of bipolar mania, aligns with symptoms like racing thoughts and impulsivity, evident in his online barrages.Many of his followers on social media describe his posts as a “trainwreck” or “public meltdown,” amplifying his outbursts for entertainment rather than support. This dynamic suggests Newsom is spiraling under public scrutiny, masking deeper psychological distress with excessive performative confidence .
The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles in early 2025, displacing thousands and straining state resources, have spotlighted Newsom’s leadership disaster. His response—blaming federal inaction and Trump’s water policies while posting AI-generated memes of himself as a heroic figure—reflects a shocking, grandiose detachment from reality. These self-aggrandizing depictions, including images of Newsom on Mount Rushmore or as a “king” on a Time magazine cover, point to delusions of grandeur, a hallmark of manic or narcissistic states. His claims of California as the “manufacturing capital of America,” despite lagging economic metrics, further suggest a distorted self-perception, compensating for the state’s $50 billion budget shortfall.
The high-speed rail project, a long-standing symbol of Newsom’s vision, has become a glaring failure, adding to his psychological burden. Initiated in 2008 to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles, it has ballooned to over $100 billion. The rail’s mismanagement fuels public frustration, intensifying pressure on Newsom. California’s other crises compound this strain: the state leads in homelessness, with a 6% rise in 2025 despite $37 billion spent; fentanyl deaths surged over 7,000 in 2024 by estimates, driven by unchecked drug dealing; and gas prices, averaging $4.57 per gallon in October 2025, remain the nation’s highest.
Newsom’s explosive accusations—such as his June 2025 address accusing Trump of wielding a “wrecking ball” to democracy, a highly-dubious $787 million lawsuit against Fox News, and latest demands: the U.S. Department of Justice keep election monitors out of California —suggest irritability and potential paranoia, common in manic or delusional states.
His podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom, hosting MAGA figures like Steve Bannon, reflects impaired judgment, possibly a desperate bid for relevance.
His history of alcohol struggles and 2020 comments about self-medication—“clean and sober is a mistake”—raise concerns about substance-related issues exacerbating psychiatric symptoms.
The cumulative stress of his governing amid these crises, amplified by a sadistic audience reveling in his perceived unraveling, could trigger a mental health crisis. His mental health initiatives, like expanding CARE Court, show awareness of such issues, yet his volatile, grandiose behavior mirrors those symptoms. I say an immediate evaluation is critical, to rule out bipolar disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, or substance-induced psychosis, ensuring California’s governance is not further jeopardized.
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Prop 50 will pass and Newsom well on his way to being the next White House operarive.
What is an “operaive”???
Is that an live opera performer???
Yep, Newsom is an opera tragedy in real life, for certain….
Newscum is trapped in his web of lies and corruption and he is cracking.
His latest is how poor he grew up. Yeppers, he survived on mac and cheese and koolaid while hustling to make a living.
Would very much like to see what Richie Greenberg has described, if it can happen. It does seem necessary. Let’s start with a battery of psychological testing to narrow down and isolate the worst of his symptoms and conditions, if that is possible. They may overlap, with some of the symptoms likely exacerbating others, as was pointed out. After this a course of thorough in-person evaluations are in order. (Newsom cannot be allowed to choose the professional psychological evaluator.) Surprise blood and urine tests will have to be routinely done throughout this process to detect the presence of substances —- both legal and illegal — that may be negatively affecting Newsom’s psychological state. Newsom may have to be in a lock-down mental health facility —– at least part of the time —- while these tests and evaluations are performed, and the process may take several months for interested persons to have a complete picture of his condition.
Keep in mind there is no known treatment for narcissistic personality disorder. The patient has to want to be rid of the disorder and, as with many psychological conditions; e.g., manic-depression, also known as bi-polar disorder, many patients often will not cooperate with recommended treatment, such as taking stabilizing medication, behavior-modification therapy, or even traditional talk therapy, because such treatment would cause them to lose the euphoric highs they experience, even when the highs they like are typically followed by serious clinical depression.
Let’s make this happen!
(Note: Commenter is not a psychological or psychiatric professional.) 🙂
You don’t need a degree in meteorology to see that it is raining.
No kidding, CW.
Newsom is dealing every day with the Narcissist of all time, Trump! Of course, I knew you were a Republican as soon as as I read a line of what you wrote! Newsom was not responsible for the fires in any way and it is Trump that attacked FEMA!
I haven’t heard anything lately about his podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom. Is it still a thing?
It might be, but now that he has admitted he is “considering” running for president now, which is —- as everyone knows —- NOT NEWS and beyond hilarious, he prefers showing up on OTHER people’s podcasts in an attempt to preposterously humble himself and tell fairy tales about his sad sad poverty-and-disability-stricken childhood, as CW referenced above.
An “Outkick” writer (see link below) likens how Newsom came off in a recent appearance on the “All the Smoke” podcast to Steve Martin in the comedy “The Jerk.” You know, the one with the comic premise, “I was born a poor black child.”
“Are We Buying Gavin Newsom’s New Accent and Backstory?”
https://www.outkick.com/politics/we-buying-gavin-newsoms-new-accent-backstory
Unfortunately yes… the low-information voters can still listen to his lies on YouTube….
Trump Derangement Syndrome on public display :
https://youtu.be/9-eypG77UH0?si=Vyi8UM4pGKowcrNq
I suggest people start sending Newscum packages of mac and cheese and koolaid. we wouldn’t want him to go hungry in his poverty. 😉
Maybe he is just confused, he is sooo empathetic that he thinks he was the poor kid eating mac and cheese and drinking kool-aid but in reality is his policies that have caused the elderly and families to eat the mac and cheese and drink the kool aid! Unfortunately the dem voters really are drinking in the Newsom Kool-Aid. 😣
Newsomlini lies every time he opens his pie hole. EVERY TIME. He is now wasting time on X bitching, moaning, and whining about Trumps remodel at the White House, which is paid by private funds and not a dime of taxpayer funds. Meanwhile, in Sacramento, the democRATS in power have approved a taxpayer-funded remodel of the state capitol originally estimated to cost $500 MILLION (money we don’t have). Now the cost has skyrocketed to $1.6 BILLION, making it the most expensive government building of any state. And to add insult to CA taxpayers, the contractor and its employees have had to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements with the state and everyone was ordered not to discuss the cost overruns and the actual building contracts with anyone. If this doesn’t violate the law in CA about being transparent with the taxpayers, I don’t know what does. So, all of Newsomlini’s BMW about the White House is nothing but a DISTRACTION to keep the media from asking him about the state capitol. Where is the media???? Where are the taxpayer organizations???? Who is the contractor that got this inflated contract????
All excellent questions at the end there, Abe.
And all of what you’ve described about this project is 100% true; that is, it completely aligns with what I know about the current state of this project from another source.
OUTRAGEOUS.
Newsom the perfect presidential persona. Trump’s hands off policy regarding all that is criminal and emanating from California plus a threat to national security and our ability to function speaks volumes of his cowardice and compromised state: FYI, the Donald is still fighting the release of the Epstein disclosures which continues to beg the question, did he violate underage children: Is Trump a pediphile? Read what he said about Epstein and young girls; Trump is very ill.
Donald Trump’s administration has reigned over the 60% decrease in the value of your US Dollar denominated holdings yet most participants in the forum continue to support him: Trump’s policies and actions are depleting you while he refuses to engage the most dangerous forces striving to fundamentally change America. Trump, Newsom and Obama the superficial agents of our demise seem to intrinsically have much on common.
Trump bankrupting America and it’s citizenry.
60% folks! Here’s waiting for your rational Trump not destroying you, your family and friends.
This article is about Gov. Hair-gel Hitler Newsom’s erratic social media outbursts, grandiose self-depictions, and explosive accusations but once again Eyeinthesky the deranged and severely mentally ill troll suffering from terminal TDS makes it about President Trump.
The only time Eyeinthesky posts is when Gov. Hair-gel Hitler Newsom is the subject of an article. Eyeinthesky probably works for Gov. Hair-gel Hitler Newsom and is unsuccessfully trying to deflect for him?
Eyeinthesky is a danger to the president and society in general. Law enforcement and the Secret Service needs to monitor Eyeinthesky closely.
Newsom needs to be dragged before a tribunal and be held accountable for his many horrific crimes against humanity. He and his wretched soul has a lot to account for.
Newsom says he is a mac & cheese po’ boy with cardboard in his word out shoes!
The chutzpa of that jerk. His father was Getty Oil’s lawyer, and certainly made plenty. Gavin “Wiggles” Newsom has set a new world record for a politician being FOS, and a second world record for being so tone deaf as to think anyone believes him.
It is strange he has not b itched about Trump sinking cocaine boats. Afraid the story might get out again, Gav?
I agree. There is something mentally wrong with Newscum. He’s unhinged.
Newsom is a total failure as governor, and he is lashing out. His only success is turning California into a Third World state with power shortages, water shortages, poverty, high taxes, massive unemployment, crumbing infrastructure, out of control wildfires, failing schools, massive state debt, government corruption, companies leaving, middle class leaving.
Newscum is a TOTAL FAILURE.
newscum, and the residents of cali-4-fornia, are suffering a server untreatable case of newscum’s narcissism.