Poor Gavin Newsom. The governor has not swallowed so much with digestive disorders since visiting the French laundry.
In the three weeks since Donald Trump took office, there is no day without an attack on democratic norms, excesses of the executive or an disgusting emission of the nation of the nation.
Newsom's reaction, which once presented itself at the Avantgarde of the Trump -Wedge, was to largely ignore the president's actions or to output some airy platitudes with the throwing weight of a down pillow.
As Newsom last week, signed laws that empowered $ 50 million for the financing of court battles against the Trump administration and the support of legal services for immigrants, the governor-and not exactly advertising-with a news camera in sight.
Good for him.
All this reluctance has to leave a bad taste in Newsom's mouth. (We don't talk about the Soigné Wine Country kitchen, which brought the governor to so much difficulties after enjoying a meal with friends with a Michelin star during the pandemic closure.)
But if it is what it takes to stay on Trump's good side and to search for it, California gets the federal forest fire empathizing, it takes urgent and tens of thousands of strict residents in Los Angeles-Die inhabitants of the region Then like that.
It is an instinct in some political circles to scream, stamp and vent in every Trump provocation. This is a way to publish tensions, and it is not an unreasonable answer to the horror show that he has taken in the past few days and a half.
But really like political That was productive?
It is not as if Trump had kept his rough-running plans secret during the presidential campaign. He still achieved a clear victory over Kamala Harris and even won the referendum, even though he fell Shy of 50% majority.
This cannot be pointed out at all that the surrender is okay. Countless legal battles are in progress to review Trump's authoritarian campaigns, and the California Attorney General Rob Bonta is one of those who have worn a groove in the courthouse who fights Trump and his co-president Elon Musk.
In contrast, Newsom has chosen a diplomatic approach to play Trump's doll need after constant praise and attention.
The governor crashed the president's arrival when Trump flew in Lax last month to examine the fire damage in Pacific palisades, and their forced encounter proved to be all bonhomy and bromance. An extended handshake. Shoulder closures.
“I appreciate the governor who comes out and meets me,” said Trump, despite the lack of an invitation.
“Thank you for being here,” offered Newsom Demury. “It means a lot.”
Last week, the two 90 minutes crowded in the Oval Office, a session that, among other things, touched the forest fire and the setback from California against Trump. Afterwards, Newsom described her meeting as “real and in terms of content” and “positive”.
“There is a familiarity and there was a relationship that was born from a crisis around Covid,” newsoma told Taryn Luna from Sacramento Bureau the Times and noticed how Trump delivered during the pandemic for California. “I wanted to return to this room.”
The fact that Trump decided the first, last and only public word in her meeting in Newsom – or “Newscum”, as the President called him childishly, said a lot about the current status of her relationship.
Of course, none of the smiths would be necessary if Trump threatens to hold back disaster with precedent in a heartless break until he receives certain political concessions: an unnecessary revision of the Californian electoral system and more water for its political benefactors to the country's country.
But that's the world we live in.
And who knows how long the Newsom Trump relaxation will take. A “large -scale” immigration authority, which is reported to be planned for the area of Los Angeles, will surely test their political ceasefire.
Every step that the Newsom takes is inevitably weighed against its perceived ambitions of the President.
This is silly for a number of reasons, not least the fact that the campaign is political light years away. Like Lis Smith, a national democratic campaign strategist, suggested: “Anyone who looks at this through the lens of politics in 2028 probably has to deregister.”
(For those who hold their breath, the next presidential elections are not another 1,363 days.)
One of the best things that Newsom could do for his hopes of the President is to monitor an impressively successful recovery from January of Feuersturm, one of these epic crises that could make or break political careers very well. “The most important thing for a governor or a candidate for an office,” said Smith, “it is that they do a good job.”
As soon as the democratic nomination competition begins, the candidates will certainly be measured by a litmus test as it has ever been violent. It is not difficult to imagine that Newsom in Newsom is confiscated by the accommodation of this most transaction by president or the type of things that the governor said about Trump and uses this flattering against him.
But Newsom does exactly what it should and puts every personal animus and political ambition for the help and comfort of the one he was chosen aside.
It should not be made to eat these words.