Some politicians just have a gift for walking face-first into a rake. Gavin Newsom doesn’t just walk into it — he sprints, trips, and somehow blames the rake for being racist.

President Trump unloads on Newsom after explosive interview

Calls it the “worst interview for a professional politician I have ever seen” pic.twitter.com/HTDiLakVOz

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And on Thursday, Donald Trump grabbed that rake and swung it like a baseball bat on live television.

The president called into Fox News’s The Five, and while he covered plenty of ground, the real show started when the conversation turned to California’s gel-haired governor and his not-so-secret presidential ambitions. What followed was less a political critique and more a comedy roast — except every punchline was backed by facts.

The Interview That Launched a Thousand Memes

If you missed Newsom’s recent train wreck of a public appearance — where he essentially told a room full of people he couldn’t read, had bad test scores, and was, in his own words, not exactly operating at full cognitive capacity — Trump sure didn’t miss it. He watched it. He memorized it. And he brought receipts.

Trump didn’t tiptoe. He brought a bulldozer:

“Well, first of all, he [Newsom] said he can’t read. Okay? You know, he did an interview… That was maybe the worst interview for a professional politician that I’ve ever seen. He said he’s mentally incompetent. He can’t read a speech. He said things about his brain, he’s got bad Board scores.”

And then came the kicker — Newsom apparently looked around the room and essentially told the audience he was just as dumb as they were. Which, predictably, got him accused of racism. You can’t make this stuff up. The man is a walking self-own machine.

Trump Wasn’t Done. He’s Never Done.

When Trump smells blood in the water, he doesn’t politely excuse himself. He cannonballs in.

“This was the worst interview, but he admitted that he was a stupid person. And we don’t want a stupid person as president. And if you watch him with the hands and everything else, there’s something wrong with the guy.”

Then he delivered what might be the most perfectly backhanded compliment in political history:

“Uh, he’s a nice looking guy, but he’s losing the look… It happens…”

Savage? Absolutely. But here’s the thing — when a man who almost certainly wants to sit behind the Resolute Desk publicly describes his own mental limitations, voters have every right to take him at his word. We literally just did four years of a president whose cognitive decline was covered up by his own party like a stain on the carpet at a five-star hotel.

Trump made exactly that point:

“He admits that he suffers from mental disability. He admits it. And somebody said a reporter, a fake reporter, said to me, well, it’s not fair that you talk about he’s mentally disabled. I said, Yeah, but he said that he’s essentially mentally disabled. And I think it’s fine. I just don’t want it in a president. Okay? We have enough problems. We just had that, by the way. We went through four years of that, and look what it got us. Not good.”

The Real Case Against Newsom

Let’s be clear — dyslexia or learning challenges shouldn’t disqualify anyone from public office. But a catastrophic record of governance? That’s a different story entirely. Newsom and his far-left legislature have turned the California dream into a California nightmare — crushing taxes, suffocating regulations, some of the most draconian COVID lockdowns in the country, and a staggering inability to deal with homelessness, crime, and rampant fraud. The man governed a paradise and turned it into a cautionary tale.

That’s not a résumé. That’s a rap sheet.

Bonus Round: Jessica Tarlov Catches a Stray

Because Trump never leaves the stage without an encore, he also took a shot at The Five’s resident liberal defender, Jessica Tarlov. When Jesse Watters suggested Trump sit next to her on set, the president didn’t hesitate:

“I watch Jessica and I’m not a fan. She uses fake numbers. She’ll give, ‘Well he’s only polling at 42%.’ That’s not right. I’m polling very high actually. I hate people that use fake polls.”

And then, because even Trump has manners — buried deep, but they’re there:

“I’m sure I’d like her. I’m sure she’s a lovely person… She’s just not for me. Now tell me, did she not want to do it, or did you kick her off the show?”

Look, Trump is blunt. He’s coarse. He says things that make pearl-clutchers reach for the smelling salts. But after decades of slick-talking Democrats running this country into the ground — from Obama’s apology tours to Biden’s cognitive cover-up to Newsom’s wrecking ball governance — maybe what America needs isn’t another polished empty suit. Maybe it needs the guy who says what 80 million people are already thinking, just louder and with better comedic timing.

Gavin Newsom wants to be president. Trump just reminded everyone why that idea belongs in the same dumpster as California’s budget surplus.