California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is condemning President Donald Trump for “disappearing [people] on the basis of the color of their skin” amid his violent, sweeping ICE raids.
Showing on “All the Smoke” podcast Saturday hosted by former NBA stars Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Newsom was requested how the nation can “recover” from Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
“We talk about authoritarianism, and people say, ‘What do you feel here?’ For guys like me, maybe not yet,” Newsom stated, talking on the president’s enhance in immigration and deportation raids. “But for the black and brown community, are you kidding me?”
The Democratic governor went on to decry the best way immigrants have been terrified to do on a regular basis duties like strolling their canines, going to the clinic or attending relations’ funerals as they worry being focused by ICE.
“It’s not just on the basis of the skin, it’s where you congregate. It’s the language you speak or your accent. In the United States in 2025, people [are] disappearing [with] no due process rights,” he continued.
Newsom famous that “masked” ICE brokers are “literally jumping out the back of U-haul [trucks]” with out figuring out themselves to seize “Americans, tourists [and] some people [who are] here with documentation, some without.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Newsom opened up about assembly a teen who grew up in Ventura County, California, who he stated was frightened to talk to him following his mother and father’ disappearance after an ICE assault. The politician stated ICE “smashed [their car] window” and arrested them on their strategy to work at a “packing facility.”
“That’s America in 2025 — Donald Trump. Terror on the streets of America,” he added. “Taking black hawk helicopters and getting people to rappel [into people’s homes] and sitting there as kids are in their diapers, in their cribs.”
Newsom additional slammed ICE for attacking individuals “who are naked and sleeping, and literally putting guns to their heads and zip-tying them” earlier than brutally “throwing them out onto the streets and sidewalks.”
Stressing that that is “happening in America right now today,” Newsom continued, “So this is serious, and it’s happened in [Los Angeles] — first city that was terrorized [by Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and ICE agents] … [It] continues to this day.”
He added, “Now you got it in Portland, and you got it in places like Illinois. They threatened San Francisco yesterday.”
Newsom’s remarks got here after he vowed final week to sue the Trump administration in a “nanosecond” if the White Home superior its plan to deploy the Nationwide Guard to San Francisco.
Newsom argued that Trump and White Home deputy chief of workers Stephen Miller’s reported plans to ship greater than 100 federal immigration brokers to the San Francisco Bay Space is part of the pair’s “authoritarian playbook,” alleging that “they’re looking” to “invoke chaos.”
Trump and Newsom have repeatedly publicly clashed because the latter has continuously criticized the president over his blanketed focusing on of immigrants.
The political determine, who condemned using masked federal brokers, notably throughout raids in Los Angeles, signed a invoice final month banning legislation enforcement officers from sporting masks, which he advised Barnes and Jackson he was “proud” to take action.
In current months, the Trump administration has deployed federal brokers in Democratic-led cities, together with Chicago and Los Angeles, the place they’ve incited violent raids and brutal arrests.
Watch Newsom’s look on “All The Smoke” beneath.
