Gov. Newsom says Trump has a 'relentless, unhinged' obsession with California during annual address

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom utilized his State of the State code Tuesday to blast President Donald Trump's medication for a "relentless, unhinged California obsession" portion besides touting the state's achievements connected its 175th day of statehood.

The Democratic politician opted to nonstop the missive to the authorities Legislature alternatively of delivering it publicly. Newsom, who's seen arsenic a imaginable statesmanlike contender for 2028, besides released a shortened mentation of the yearly study connected his societal media channels. The missive criticized the president and his policies for bringing chaos and disruption to California, without mentioning Trump by name.

"We are present 9 months into a conflict to support the values we clasp astir beloved and to sphere the economical and societal instauration we built for California," Newsom wrote. "We are facing a national medication built connected incompetence and malicious ignorance, 1 that seeks the decease of autarkic thinking."

Newsom hasn't done a ceremonial code successful a fewer years, a departure from decades of tradition.

The authorities has been a battleground for the Trump medication aft its hardline migration strategy spurred protests, and the deployment of the National Guard and the Marines. The national authorities has besides chopped backing to the state's long-delayed high-speed obstruction project, rolled backmost the state's first-in-the-nation regularisation banning the merchantability of caller gas-powered cars and sued the authorities implicit its instrumentality that allows transgender girls to vie connected girls sports teams.

California responded by suing the medication 41 times. Lawmakers earlier this twelvemonth authorized giving $50 cardinal to California's Department of Justice and different ineligible groups to assistance support the state's progressive policies. California is besides warring backmost against Trump's determination to suspend backing to University of California, Los Angeles, implicit allegations of civilian rights violations related to antisemitism and affirmative action, Newsom said.

"It would beryllium a mistake to deliberation California is cowering successful the look of this onslaught," Newsom said.

The missive besides outlines what Newsom described arsenic California's achievements - highlighting the state's resiliency and speedy betterment effort to the devasting wildfires successful Los Angeles earlier this twelvemonth arsenic good arsenic different advancements successful tech, greenish vigor and acquisition successful an system that exceeds $4.1 trillion. He besides highlighted the state's unpaid unit of tens of thousands of young radical and a taxation recognition programme to bring backmost Hollywood productions.

State Republicans said Newsom is prioritizing gathering his nationalist illustration alternatively of moving connected issues successful California. James Gallagher, the Republican person of the authorities Assembly, pointed to the state's ongoing fund deficits, homelessness situation and sky-high costs of surviving successful a societal media station responding to Newsom's letter.

Gallagher besides criticized Newsom's propulsion for a caller U.S. House legislature representation to assistance Democrats triumph much seats and perchance summation power of the House up of the 2026 midterms. California's determination was to antagonistic a akin effort led by GOP lawmakers astatine Trump's urging successful Texas.

"Stop refusing to amusement up and really bash the enactment of being a governor," helium said successful the video.