Gavin Newsom’s Bizarro-Trump Schtick Will get Even Weirder With a Memecoin

Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, has spent latest weeks mimicking Donald Trump’s model on-line. Newsom’s staff is filling his social media channels with all-caps screeds and vainglorious pronouncements that sound just like the president, even rolling out merchandise like crimson hats that say “Newsom Was Proper About All the pieces.”

The technique has been polarizing, to say the least, with some individuals embracing Newsom’s strategy as a enjoyable assault on Trump, whereas others say it’s an pointless distraction that accomplishes nothing whereas complicated low-information voters who don’t perceive he’s satirizing the president.

However Newsom’s newest thought is perhaps his most complicated but. The governor says he’s going to launch a memecoin to compete with Trump’s cryptocurrency $TRUMP. Newsom introduced the coin on Kara Swisher’s podcast Pivot, although we don’t have many particulars but. Pivot launched a clip of the governor speaking about his plan, however the full episode doesn’t come out till Friday.

“We’re about to place a memecoin out. And you recognize what? Donald Trump, we’ll see how effectively your coin does versus our coin,” Newsom mentioned.

Swisher requested if it was going to be referred to as one thing like Gavincoin. The governor defined it might be referred to as the Trump Corruption Coin, which appears to interrupt with the spirit of trolling Trump by placing out a narcissistic branded merchandise.

All the schtick that Newsom and his staff have been participating in includes the governor making himself the focus, so it’s odd to type of break that mould whereas mimicking the crypto a part of it. It’s additionally not clear but the place individuals will have the ability to purchase the coin or the place any proceeds might go.

Trump and his household have made billions from their crypto endeavors, in accordance with CBS News, even though $TRUMP and $MELANIA have misplaced most of their value since they have been launched. Trump first introduced $TRUMP shortly earlier than he was inaugurated in January, pulling off one of the vital blatantly corrupt strikes any president has ever tried.

Presidents aren’t supposed to profit financially from their position because the chief of the nation. However he’s doing that not simply in crypto, however by way of his different companies like Trump Media and his golf equipment around the world.

WOW! WHAT AN HONOR! ON MOUNT RUSHMORE, THANK YOU!! — GCN https://t.co/Y7Govaliwz

— Governor Newsom Press Workplace (@GovPressOffice) August 18, 2025

Newsom has lately tried to place himself as an opponent of Trump, regardless of spending months getting cozy with a few of Trump’s most fascist allies. Newsom launched his personal podcast after the 2024 election and has carried out very pleasant interviews with individuals like Dr. Phil, Michael Savage, and Charlie Kirk.

Newsom additionally interviewed Steve Bannon lower than a month after Bannon made a Nazi salute at CPAC.

Newsom’s interview was fawning and handled Bannon like somebody worthy of respect fairly than the damaging far-right influencer that he’s.

The California governor has additionally been working in his usually centrist methods as his time in that position involves a detailed. Newsom is term-limited and may’t run once more in 2026, however is clearly making a play for the presidency in 2028 and desires to indicate he’s powerful on crime.

The governor’s workplace issued a press release on Thursday about new “crime suppression groups” fashioned by the California Freeway Patrol. Amongst their duties can be to “Determine and suppress legal exercise in high-crime areas by way of knowledge and intelligence-led policing.” What does that imply? Most likely some extra tech that turns California right into a Minority Report-style dystopia. However we’ll have to attend and see.

Newsom has additionally sold out trans individuals, vetoed laws that might’ve made it simpler for youngster victims of sexual assault to find justice, and vetoed a invoice from the California legislature in 2023 that might’ve capped insulin costs. The Governor insisted that the insulin worth cap wasn’t vital as a result of the state was going to supply its personal low-cost model. It’s been two years, and that hasn’t occurred but.

However not less than Newsom is making some humorous tweets, proper? And now, apparently, a memecoin.