California Gov. Gavin Newsom ran through his new strategy of aggressively trolling the Trump administration, during a Friday appearance on the podcast “Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway.’

“This is one of the great grifters of our time. This is just jaw-dropping,” Newsom said, calling out what he described as blatant corruption in Trump’s trade policies and the broader “crony capitalism” taking hold in the country.

“I mean, that was insanity yesterday at the Cabinet meeting. And [Commerce Secretary Howard] Lutnik [was] talking about socializing and nationalizing companies like Lockheed [Martin]. And you're worried about [New York mayoral candidate Zohran] Mamdani and some grocery stores?” he said.

“This is serious stuff. And so the graft and the corruption, the self-dealing, is

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