Gavin Newsom has been caught in a lie once again, with receipts brought forward to confirm that while the governor denied that he spoke to President Trump regarding the Los Angeles riots, the truth was that the president and the governor spoke via phone for 16 minutes on June 7.
For context, President Trump was asked on June 8, 2025, whether he had spoken to California Governor Gavin Newsom regarding the violent anti-ICE riots that broke out in Los Angeles on June 6. In response, the president said that he and the governor had spoken “a day ago.” However, the governor later denied this claim on X.
In an X post on June 10, 2025, Gov. Newsom said that there “was no call” from President Trump, adding, “Not even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s talking to.” Furthermore, the governor attached a clip of President Trump taking reporters’ questions from the Oval Office in which he said that he had called Gov. Newsom “a day ago.”
Furthermore, in the news clip shared by Gov. Newsom, the president said that he had called the governor “to tell him, got to do a better job, he’s doing a bad job. Causing a lot of death and potential death.” The president added, “If we didn’t send the National Guard, and last time, we gave them a little additional help, Los Angeles would be burning right now. Los Angeles would be not a lot different from what you saw take place in California, in Los Angeles, a little while ago.”
After Gov. Newsom denied that the president had called him, Fox News presented a screenshot from the president’s phone, apparently verifying that a 16-minute-long call had occurred. Furthermore, the network shared a statement from President Trump to John Roberts in which he said, “First call was not picked up. Second call, Gavin picked up, we spoke for 16 minutes.”
Continuing, the statement from the president to Roberts read, “I told [Newsom] to, essentially, ‘get his a– in gear,’ and stop the riots, which were out of control.” The statement concluded, “More than anything else, this shows what a liar he is. [He] said I never called. Here is the evidence.”
In addition, the governor attempted to defend himself further after the screenshot of the call log was shared by Fox News. Gov. Newsom took to X on June 10, 2025, writing, “If only he had shown the right ones…Trump doesn’t even know what day it is.” In response, conservative influencer Paul A. Szypula wrote, “June 7th, 2025 1:23 AM Eastern time is June 6th, 2025 10:23 PM Pacific time, the day the riots started in Los Angeles. You are terrible at social media. Just stop.”
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Furthermore, on the same day, Gov. Newsom wrote that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles “goes far beyond Trump’s call for deporting criminals,” adding, “It’s a step toward authoritarianism. It’s our democracy at a crossroads.”
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