‘Cut It Out’: Char­la­m­agne Tells Gavin New­som To Stop Say­ing He Wants To ‘Trump-Proof’ Cal­i­for­nia

Radio host Char­la­m­agne Tha God crit­i­cized Demo­c­ra­t­ic Cal­i­for­nia Gov. Gavin New­som on Wednes­day for claim­ing he wants to “Trump-proof” Cal­i­for­nia.

New­som and Cal­i­for­nia law­mak­ers ini­ti­at­ed a spe­cial ses­sion Mon­day to safe­guard the state’s lib­er­al poli­cies; the governor’s office pre­vi­ous­ly told The Asso­ci­at­ed Press the effort would aim to “Trump-proof” California’s laws. Char­la­m­agne, on “The Break­fast Club,” ques­tioned the prac­ti­cal­i­ty and optics of the “Trump-proof” rhetoric, sug­gest­ing it could harm California’s rela­tion­ship with the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. (RELATED:  ‘The View’ Co-Hosts Attempt To Explain Away Biden’s Hunter Par­don By Blam­ing Trump)

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“I do won­der what that means, to ‘Trump-proof’ a state. Like how do you ‘Trump-proof’ a state in Amer­i­ca? Like what hap­pens when you need the pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca for some­thing? Like I don’t quite under­stand what that means,” Char­la­m­agne said. “Maybe I just need to hear it. Maybe I need to hear the details … If there’s poli­cies that you don’t like that [Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald] Trump may enact, make it about that. Don’t make it about the per­son.”

“Well, that’s essen­tial­ly what it is about,” jour­nal­ist Morg­yn Wood respond­ed. “So New­som is ask­ing the Cal­i­for­nia leg­is­la­ture for $25 mil­lion to fund pos­si­ble lit­i­ga­tion if the Trump admin­is­tra­tion enacts rules that impact Cal­i­for­nia pol­i­cy.”

Char­la­m­agne expressed sup­port for the lit­i­ga­tion effort but reit­er­at­ed his crit­i­cism of the “Trump-proof” rhetoric.

“I’m with that … but once again, make it about the poli­cies. Because when you say things like ‘Trump-proof,’ you gon’ end up look­ing like a hyp­ocrite when you need the pres­i­dent for some­thing and you all in his face smil­ing and cheesing the same way Pres­i­dent [Joe] Biden was after they called him a ‘threat to democ­ra­cy’ and all of these oth­er things and then he was like ‘wel­come back’ when it came time for the White House,” he said. “So it’s like, cut it out.”

Cal­i­for­nia is con­sid­ered a “sanc­tu­ary” juris­dic­tion for statewide poli­cies that pro­hib­it coop­er­a­tion between local law enforce­ment offi­cials and Immi­gra­tion and Cus­toms Enforce­ment (ICE). New­som is one of sev­er­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic gov­er­nors and oth­er lib­er­al elect­ed offi­cials who have declared that they will resist Trump’s hard­line immi­gra­tion agen­da.

Cal­i­for­nia sued Trump’s first admin­is­tra­tion over 100 times on issues such as cli­mate, immi­gra­tion and health care, accord­ing to Cal­Mat­ters.

Char­la­m­agne in Novem­ber ques­tioned whether Biden ever tru­ly thought Trump was a “threat to democ­ra­cy” or “a fas­cist” due to his opti­mistic rhetoric regard­ing the pres­i­dent-elect fol­low­ing his vic­to­ry over Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris.

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