Gavin Newsom doesn’t mind trampling on the rainbow flag — just ask his critics

When put plainly, it sounds insane.

The Governor of California has a staff paid to hurl gay insults online at political opponents in a thinly veiled bid to seize the presidency.

Said another way: The actual strategy of the Democratic leader of one of America’s most liberal states is to have young employees publicly post extremely offensive anti-gay jokes.

That is what this putz thinks will win over hearts and minds and propel him to Washington in 2028 — bullying and hair gel.

Well, all it’s doing is making Newsom look like an LGBTQIA-hole.

Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at San Lorenzo High School. Anadolu via Getty Images

Yet Governor Homophobe doesn’t seem to mind trampling on the rainbow flag. Despite nervous jitters from his ideological allies at the New York Times and USA Today, Newsom stays the coarse course.

Crudely suggesting his critics are gay or mocking out gay conservatives has become one of his team’s go-to tactics.

Late last month, responding to a clip of conservative Benny Johnson on Fox News speaking about alleged fraud in California, did the X account @GovPressOffice smartly debate the issue?

No. It made a crack about a gay hook-up app, of course!

“We got a call from Grindr after this and said your team was their biggest users,” shot off Newsom’s band of messaging geniuses.

The schoolyard losers wrote something queasily similar in January when Johnson said he was coming to “investigate” the Golden State.

“We’ll make sure Grindr servers are ready…,” they replied.

Ick.

Politicians are also targets of their flatlining stand-up act.

That same month, when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is openly gay, traveled to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the @GovPressOffice account posted, “Scott Bessent flew across the ocean to star in The Real Housewives of Davos — and can’t stop talking about how ‘hot’ he thinks @CAGovernor ‘Davos’ Daddy’ Newsom is.”

Pathetic.

Reading these gross excuses for humor, in which the leader of the nation’s most populous state is all but using the word gay as a derogatory remark, you’d conclude that these California Democrats don’t like gay people very much.

Clearly they couldn’t care less about that measly 9.3% of the population (according to Gallup) just two years after President Trump won Wisconsin by 0.86% and Michigan by 1.42%.

Newsom’s staff has responded to his critics online with gay insults. REUTERS

Au contraire!, insists the governor’s office. The folks penning these crystalline witticisms are supposedly gay themselves, and everybody who’s annoyed and offended by them merely doesn’t get the joke.

“You can choose to find offense from what we are doing or you can see it for what it really is: holding up a mirror to the hypocrisy and derangement of trolls like Benny Johnson, who lives his life soaked in fake outrage,” Newsom spokesman Izzy Gardon told The Times.

Holding up a mirror?! Now that’s funny!

What Newsom and Co. are obviously trying to do is mimic the combative online tone of President Trump. Many politicians have. And they always flop. For one, Trump doesn’t mock gay people.But he also doesn’t hire a pack of Gen Zers to sit in a conference room and craft Truth Social posts with tweezers. He writes them himself. He’s genuine.

Meanwhile, there is not a genuine molecule in Gavin Newsom’s vampiric body.

Look, I couldn’t tell you what the Democratic Party stands for in 2026. And neither could they. But I know what they do not stand for: insulting gays.