Newsom Copied Trump's Posting Style Exactly — Fox News Called It "Childish" Without Seeing the Irony
Newsom's press office began posting in Trump's exact style — ALL CAPS, nicknames, exclamation marks, fake Mount Rushmore photos. Fox News and right-wing hosts attacked the posts as "childish" and "unhinged" — describing Trump's own communication style perfectly, without realizing it.
In mid-2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom's press office began posting on X in a style identical to Trump's Truth Social posts: ALL CAPS, multiple exclamation points, derogatory nicknames, strangely placed quotation marks, needless parentheticals, and digitally altered images — including Newsom on Mount Rushmore and being prayed over by Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock, and an angel-winged Hulk Hogan.
The posts went viral. But the real payoff came from the right-wing response.
Fox News and conservative commentators attacked Newsom's posts as "childish," "unhinged," "unserious," and unbecoming of someone who aspires to be president. Fox ran segments on Newsom's office using "TINY HANDS" and other insults, calling the behavior beneath the dignity of public office.
They were describing Trump's communication style perfectly — and didn't see the irony.
That was the entire point. Newsom explained: "We're putting a mirror up to the lunacy that is Trump's tweets, and his grift, the madness that is someone that would dress up as the pope and tweet that out, or put his face up on Mount Rushmore, or in a Superman costume."
The strategy created an impossible bind for Republicans: there was no way to criticize Newsom's posts without implying that the President of the United States' posts are equally unserious and foolish. Every attack on Newsom's tone was an inadvertent attack on Trump's.
Newsom also launched merchandise mocking Trump — including "Trump signature series kneepads" at Davos for CEOs who capitulated to the president — and briefly created a parody memecoin mocking Trump's $TRUMP crypto grift.
The episode revealed something about Trump's political brand: his communication style is so distinctive that copying it verbatim reads as obvious satire. When the mirror is held up, the absurdity becomes impossible to deny — unless you're the people who never noticed it in the original.