California Governor Gavin Newsom, a notorious leftist, has falsely claimed that his office had never used the term “Latinx,” but that lie was debunked during a conversation with conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who caught the Democrat with his pants down during an interview.
For context, during a March 6, 2025, interview with Charlie Kirk, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California claimed that he had never used the term “Latinx.” However, after the interview, CNN, a news outlet that tends to lean left, put together a compilation of the governor “personally and repeatedly” using the term, which Charlie Kirk himself called “brutal.” In addition, Kirk made the point that if the governor was willing to “lie like this,” it was impossible to know what else he could be lying about.
During the interview, Gov. Newsom told Kirk, “By the way, not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx.” He added, “I just didn’t even know where it came from. What are people talking about?” However, after the governor made these statements, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski criticized Newsom on air, saying, “These aren’t minor shifts, these are progressive issues that Gavin Newsom used to champion until very recently, and now he’s just walking away from them, he’s sort of acting like they were never legitimate…in the first place.”
Furthermore, after the CNN segment criticizing Newsom went viral, Fox News shared a series of X posts from the governor in which he used the term “Latinx,” including one from July 27, 2020, in which he wrote, “#COVID19 disproportionately impacts the Latinx community.”
Furthermore, Fox News also pointed out that one of Governor Newsom’s web pages featured prominent use of the term “Latinx,” saying, “Today, over 2 million children in California do not have access to healthy, whole foods, with Black and Latinx children reporting food insecurity twice that of children in white households.”
Continuing, the governor wrote, “Rising rates in the Central Valley are concerning. CA is making $52M available to increase testing, contact tracing and quarantine efforts, and sending strike teams to 4 counties with increased cases and hospitalizations.” However, Gov. Newsom received plenty of backlash in the comments section after publishing that post, with one X user writing, “Gavin Newsom in 2025 – ‘No democrats use the term Latinx.'”
In addition, when Charlie Kirk shared CNN’s coverage of his interview with Newsom online on March 21, 2025, he ripped into the woke governor, saying, “After telling me that no one in his office ever used the term Latinx, CNN put together a brutal compilation of Gov. Gavin Newsom personally and repeatedly using the phrase.” Kirk added, “If he’ll lie like this, directly to my face, on camera…”
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Responding to Kirk’s post, countless conservatives weighed in in the comments section, with the influencer Gunther Eagleman writing, “There’s no way he just ‘forgot.’ He’s a snake oil salesman with hair gel. Another X user chimed in, “Gavin Newsom is a complete hypocrite and pathological liar just like every other Democrat leader.”
Watch Kirk’s interview with Newsom:
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