Gavin Newsom Rips Key Trump Vibe: Being 'Anti-Woke' Is 'Just Anti-Black' [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 25th, 2025, 2:17 pm


California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said that if you oppose “woke” policies like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that means you are undoubtedly “anti-Black,” before trashing President Donald Trump’s administration, saying it was looking to “reverse” American racial relations to a “pre-1960s world.” The prominent Democrat made those provocative claims on the All the Smoke podcast, hosted by ex-NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, on Saturday.

“All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop,” Newsom told the pair early in the episode. “All the CRT, ESG, DEI stuff, that’s all it is. It’s this great purge.” Beyond DEI, Newsom was referring to Critical Race Theory and Environmental, Social, and Governance Programs — two issues the president has used executive orders to counteract since returning to the White House in January.

Trump also issued several EOs to dismantle DEI within the federal government earlier this year. The Trump Administration, according to one of those EOs, said it was terminating “to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions,” earlier this year, as well as positions like “Chief Diversity Officer” within the federal government.

Newsom said the Trump Administration is looking to move American back decades in terms of how it treats minorities. He pointed to the Supreme Court potentially changing a key section to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as one example Republicans are looking to undo 60 years of racial progress. “They’re literally putting America in reverse, quite literally, to a pre-1960s world,” Newsom said. He added it is an “unf**king believable moment” where Republicans are “re-writing history” and “censoring historical facts.”

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He is 100% CORRECT.

When Kamala Harris made "We're not going back" one of the central themes and a rallying cry of her campaign, 45 and his white supremacist loons took that on as a "challenge" to do just that.