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Miles Archer

(21,238 posts)
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 06:14 PM Sunday

NEWSOM to STEVEN CHEUNG: "What's it like to be on your knees, piggy?"

What's it like to be on your knees, piggy?' Gavin Newsom goes nuclear on Trump official

https://www.rawstory.com/gavin-newsom-2674376595/

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung took to social media Saturday evening to gush over President Donald Trump’s work ethic with remarks that quickly drew the attention of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose press office swiftly delivered a brutal response.

Aside from heading White House communications, Cheung is also Trump’s assistant, and noted that Saturday evening, Trump was "still in the Oval Office working,” and said it was “truly remarkable to witness” the president’s work ethic.

Newsom’s official press office account on X hit Cheung with a biting response.

“What's it like to be on your knees, piggy?” reads the post from Newsom’s press office.

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NEWSOM to STEVEN CHEUNG: "What's it like to be on your knees, piggy?" (Original Post) Miles Archer Sunday OP
Uuuh - did this really happen? NBachers Sunday #1
Yes Polybius Sunday #15
FFS......"put the American people first". what a crock of shit vapor2 Yesterday #27
Of course it is all performance PatSeg 15 hrs ago #29
EXACTLY. Cheung is no "zealot." Miles Archer 14 hrs ago #32
"Paid troll" is an apt description PatSeg 8 hrs ago #39
Miller's like rust...he never sleeps Miles Archer 7 hrs ago #40
"Like rust"! PatSeg 7 hrs ago #41
Because Miller relishes playing the bad guy, and... Miles Archer 7 hrs ago #42
True PatSeg 6 hrs ago #43
I hope so.. Cherrycheeks 14 hrs ago #33
Awesome. Fight fire with fire. They're all fascist pigs, especially Cheung. What a toad. Blues Heron Sunday #2
Cheung really does look like a pig fujiyamasan Sunday #3
omg.. I just searched his pic.. Cha Sunday #9
He is gross. sheshe2 Sunday #23
Oh I know... Cheung is way obvious... Traitor.. Cha Sunday #25
He is a nasty mofo too. Meanest one of the bunch. OMGWTF Sunday #13
He "specializes" in the "your mother" type of responses Miles Archer 22 hrs ago #28
yes he does... and he is a true scumbag LymphocyteLover Sunday #21
That is one ugly man inside and out BonnieJW 14 hrs ago #35
. dalton99a Sunday #4
Cheung looks more like Zippy the Pinhead to me. The Madcap Sunday #7
Right from Griffith Observatory. PCIntern Sunday #17
Yes! wolfie001 Sunday #19
No Need! Big Fan of Bug-Eyed Earl Here! N/T ColoringFool Sunday #24
A toad and a turd. Prof. Toru Tanaka Sunday #18
I'm surprised Pedo POTUS lets anyone that ugly work for him... or does he think Cheung makes him look good? LymphocyteLover Sunday #22
It's like what Thorton Mellon said when his assistant said he could lose a few pounds. Ray Bruns 14 hrs ago #31
"work ethic"? electric_blue68 Sunday #5
Right? Fucking Propaganda Pig Slop. Cha Sunday #10
The guy that falls asleep at his desk and sleeps through quitting time, isn't actually working overtime. dem4decades Sunday #6
Pedo Trump tweeting all night Farmer-Rick Sunday #8
Where do they find these idiots? paleotn Sunday #11
I thought his lack of a neck was due to muscle Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday #12
Hey Cheung, MarineCombatEngineer Sunday #14
He looks like a Thumb ToxMarz Sunday #16
My nickname for him is "The Thumbhead of Yucca Flats." Grokenstein 13 hrs ago #36
Does the McDonald's that the White House johnnyfins Sunday #20
When they go low we go lower... belpejic Sunday #26
Once again, I must remind everyone that watching Fox Noise 12 hours a day is not "working" Ray Bruns 14 hrs ago #30
Have mercy on the poor guy. I think his head was caught in a giant pencil sharpener. Blumancru 14 hrs ago #34
Odd Job 2na fisherman 13 hrs ago #37
He was still in the Oval office Figarosmom 11 hrs ago #38

vapor2

(3,555 posts)
27. FFS......"put the American people first". what a crock of shit
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 12:52 AM
Yesterday

When will these sycophants snap of their trance? Clearly no adults in the room

PatSeg

(51,720 posts)
29. Of course it is all performance
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:20 AM
15 hrs ago

Cheung and others know the truth, but they have to put on a show. I'm sure there will be many regrets down the road.

Miles Archer

(21,238 posts)
32. EXACTLY. Cheung is no "zealot."
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:04 AM
14 hrs ago

He's a paid troll, with his specialty being that he takes great personal pride in being as vulgar and offensive as possible.

PatSeg

(51,720 posts)
39. "Paid troll" is an apt description
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 04:35 PM
8 hrs ago

And he's probably not paid all that much. The whole administration is full of suckers and losers. Very few will last. For some strange reason though Stephen Miller seems to be outlasting everyone. Considering Trump's obsession with optics, I would have thought he wouldn't last past the first Trump term.

Miles Archer

(21,238 posts)
40. Miller's like rust...he never sleeps
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:24 PM
7 hrs ago

There's been so much NOISE coming from Trump in 2025 that it's easy to forget that Miller spent most of 2024 dancing around the campfire with his pan flute like a drunken satyr, GIDDY at the prospect of the return of kids in cages. Miller will never have another "opportunity" like this, and he's not napping while he can be screwing over anyone in America who isn't lily-white.

PatSeg

(51,720 posts)
41. "Like rust"!
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:31 PM
7 hrs ago

Well that fits.

I agree, he won't have another opportunity like this. He's hardly the most personable individual and I'm sure most people are repulsed by him. I'll never entirely understand why Trump stuck by him.

Miles Archer

(21,238 posts)
42. Because Miller relishes playing the bad guy, and...
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:47 PM
7 hrs ago

...even though Trump does as well, if Miller really goes off the deep end, he'll just pull the plug on him, like he did with Musk.

PatSeg

(51,720 posts)
43. True
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:05 PM
6 hrs ago

Though I'd really expected that to have happened by now. It's not like Miller is oozing charisma and personality.

Cherrycheeks

(291 posts)
33. I hope so..
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:15 AM
14 hrs ago

I believe that he is the one who writes most of the shit on lie social, pretending to be his boss.

Cha

(316,164 posts)
9. omg.. I just searched his pic..
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 07:33 PM
Sunday

I had no idea.

Shame on him.. fucking gross Propaganda Goebbels Center.

Cha

(316,164 posts)
25. Oh I know... Cheung is way obvious... Traitor..
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 10:15 PM
Sunday

too, looks like a Glazed Orange ham.

Miles Archer

(21,238 posts)
28. He "specializes" in the "your mother" type of responses
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:14 AM
22 hrs ago

Mean, angry, vulgar...a bulbous little man with a perpetually raised middle finger.

LymphocyteLover

(9,205 posts)
22. I'm surprised Pedo POTUS lets anyone that ugly work for him... or does he think Cheung makes him look good?
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:46 PM
Sunday

Ray Bruns

(5,881 posts)
31. It's like what Thorton Mellon said when his assistant said he could lose a few pounds.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:01 AM
14 hrs ago

“I have to get bigger actors”

dem4decades

(13,493 posts)
6. The guy that falls asleep at his desk and sleeps through quitting time, isn't actually working overtime.
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 07:13 PM
Sunday

Farmer-Rick

(12,351 posts)
8. Pedo Trump tweeting all night
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 07:26 PM
Sunday

And then sleeping in meetings and press insult gatherings is not really work. It's more like the incoherent stupidity of a rotting mind. But that's probably the closest pedo Trump has ever gotten to the concept of work. Now he needs a break to go golf on the government dime.

paleotn

(21,328 posts)
11. Where do they find these idiots?
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 07:36 PM
Sunday

Fucks are Us? Toady Emporium?

Perfect response, Newsom, on so many levels.

"Bare knuckles!" No prisoners. Well done, Governor!

Grokenstein

(6,222 posts)
36. My nickname for him is "The Thumbhead of Yucca Flats."
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:54 AM
13 hrs ago

Bad-movie and MST3K fans will get the reference.


2na fisherman

(200 posts)
37. Odd Job
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 11:30 AM
13 hrs ago

I have heard somewhere that he is known by this nickname among White House staffers. It is the character name of a murderous James Bond villain.

Figarosmom

(9,380 posts)
38. He was still in the Oval office
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 01:32 PM
11 hrs ago

Because he fell asleep and no one wanted to wake him.

As seen in that cabinet meeting they are supposed to just ignore it and act as though he's awake and listening.

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