“He has to be a little bit respectful of Washington, because if he’s not, he doesn’t have a chance of succeeding.”
”Slimy Newscum, right?”
The president had previously warned that he would provide only the “very minimum” of federal funds to New York City if Mamdani won City Hall.
“Maybe that should be his nickname — Slimy. Slimy Newscum, right?” Trump said, prompting laughter from the crowd.
Newsom was quick to respond on X, writing simply:
“You lost.”
Meanwhile, in California, both Gov. Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber were named in a lawsuit filed by state Republicans after voters approved Proposition 50, a measure allowing the state to redraw congressional district boundaries.
