California Governor Gavin Newsom has elevated his war with Donald Trump to a new level by suggesting the president, who turns 79 on Saturday, is slipping mentally based upon a recent phone conversations with him.
According to a report from Alex Thompson of Axios, Newsom is complaining that his talks with the president over the use of the military in Los Angeles, which has plunged the community into increasing turmoil, have been fruitless because the elderly president has trouble staying on topic.
Newsom told Fox LA, "He [Trump] is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago, and he's incapable of even a train of thought."
He then added, "He's lost it."
The Axios report from Thompson, co-author of the Biden bashing "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" along with CNN's Jake Tapper, adds, "Newsom's jabs at Trump's age are part of a barrage of criticisms he's tossed at Trump in the past week. He's called Trump a threat to democracy who is putting the U.S. on a road to authoritarianism."
Newsom has also taken his attacks on Trump to X, where he recently wrote, "Trump doesn't even know what day it is."
The report went on to note, "Trump has long had a rambling and at times difficult to follow speaking style, which he has dubbed 'the weave.'"
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