When Newsom tweets just like Trump, Fox News hosts go nuts

Fox News has never been bothered by the Trumpian approach to social media, with its all caps posts and multiple exclamation points.

- LORRAINE ALI NEWS AND CULTURE CRITIC

GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM is taking a page from Trump's social media playbook.

Its self-aggrandizing hyperbole. Its mean-girl name-calling. But this week, the MAGA network’s hosts were triggered.

“You have to stop it with the Twitter thing,” said host Dana Perino. Sean Hannity bemoaned the “performative confrontational style” that only “wins you points with the loony radical base.” Fox News anchor Trace Gallagher referred to the tone as “childish.”

So why the sudden dismay and hurt feelings? Because the taunts and boasts are coming from a Democrat, and not just any lefty, but King Snowflake himself, California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Adopting Trump's low-bar social media tactics, the X account of Newsom's press office has spent recent weeks mimicking the president’s social media style to troll the trollers. They've nicknamed U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem “Commander Cosplay.” And Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — who took that sunny Mexican vacation during a deadly 2021 winter storm in his state - is "Cancun Cruz." As for the commander-in-chief? "Small Hands." Playing off the doctored images of a virile Trump posted by the president's account on his own platform, Newsom's account has generated equally delusional memes. One shows the governor's face carved into Mt. Rushmore, another of him as a king on the cover of Time magazine and as a messiah-like figure worshiped by MAGAites Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and the late Hulk Hogan (the last post was followed by another that just read "I HATE KID ROCK!!! GCN").