Surprise! Joe Scarborough doesn't like Newsom's trolling of trump

[EarlG]

24. I'll admit, the first time I saw Newsom doing the all-caps tweet thing, I did think to myself

"Dude, are you sure you want to go down this road?" But since his social media team has been hammering this every day, I'm starting to see the value in it. For me it was two things -- first, when Newsom was asked about his all-caps tweets by a reporter, he said (paraphrasing), "If you think this is unacceptable coming from me, then you should also think that it's unacceptable when it comes from the president." And then I read that Fox News had been whining about the all-caps tweets too, and I thought, this is actually effective. It really does put a spotlight on Trump's shitty behavior.

It's not that Newsom wants to govern by tweeting in all-caps and posting stupid AI memes of himself with Jesus standing behind him -- but by juxtaposing himself against Trump, he's taking away a lot of Trump's power when Trump does this. Newsom's correct in that if people find what he's doing unacceptable or lacking gravitas or whatever, then they should also find it unacceptable when Trump does it. He's ridiculing Trump by copying his style, and I think that helps to make Trump look smaller when he does it himself.

And to be honest, these days I'll take anything that even remotely looks like it's working...