President Donald Trump has found a new way to chase the image of a global peacemaker by simply declaring himself one. This week, he slapped his name across the front of the country’s premier peacebuilding institution, rebranding it as the “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”

And a short time later, California Gov. Gavin Newsom stepped in with a clapback so cutting that it instantly exposed the absurdity — and the hypocrisy — behind Trump’s latest attempt to rewrite his own legacy.

The State Department confirmed Wednesday it had renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent organization created by Congress to promote conflict resolution around the world.

In an announcement posted on X, the agency praised Trump as “the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history,” a declaration that

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