Governor Gavin Newsom has seemingly been on a comedy tour at Donald Trump‘s expense, and the hits simply hold getting funnier. What started as informal trolling has snowballed right into a relentless stream of punch traces, with every dig touchdown more durable than the final.
Newsom’s most up-to-date jab? Mocking Trump’s new design of occasion on the commander in chief’s official residence in Washington, D.C.
The White Home’s official X account dropped mock-ups of what a UFC brawl on the South Garden may seem like, full with the promotion’s signature octagon cage planted within the grass and rows of spectators packed in round it.
Trump plans to have an octagon cage positioned on the White Home garden for the occasion. As the images unfold throughout the web, social media customers started slamming Trump for varied causes.
“NEXT YEAR IS AMERICA’S 250th BIRTHDAY. COUNTLESS PATRIOTS HAVE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR OUR FREEDOM. BUT INSTEAD OF HONORING THEM, DOLLAR DONNY WILL BE MAKING $$$ FOR HIS UFC BOY. THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ELECT A SHOE SALESMAN. TRUMP IS FOR PROFIT, NOT FOR AMERICA. (SAD!),” learn a publish from a Newsom parody account.
“We might’ve been higher off with Al Bundy,” stated one particular person, referring to Ed O’Neill’s character Al Bundy from the TV sitcom “Married… with Youngsters.” Bundy labored as a shoe salesman on the fictional shoe retailer within the mall.
“That’s an insult to shoe salesmen,” stated one other particular person. “Trump is beneath them he’s the bottom of the low, a snake oil scammer.”
”It (shoe salesman) matches higher than president,” quipped one other critic.
Even a few of the Republican politician’s self-described supporters questioned the necessity for an MMA occasion on the White Home. One particular person famous, “I really like my President, however this appears just a little bit like idiocracy.”
“Donnie needs his personal Starvation Video games,” learn one other sarcastic tweet, referring to the favored dystopian-themed “The Starvation Video games” younger grownup novel sequence and movement image franchise.
A extra angered X person added, “It’s disgusting, what he’s doing to the folks’s home!”
Trump has confirmed that the UFC-White Home crossover is predicted to happen subsequent yr on the Fourth of July to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the USA.
But, Newsom appears in disbelief about Trump’s potential to make this occur and has even held Trump accountable for mendacity to the general public about future plans, similar to lowering grocery costs.
In one other try to mock Trump, the Cali. governor shared an AI picture of himself bouncing an orange child with Trump’s head inside a cage. The top of the video reveals Newsom setting child Trump down on a gold mat contained in the cage earlier than the doorways lock.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 4, 2025
UFC CEO Dana White has been carefully aligned with Trump. White, 56, met with the MAGA chief in Washington in late August.
White introduced in an Instagram Dwell video filmed in an airplane on Aug. 28, “The White Home struggle is on. I’ll have extra particulars within the subsequent couple of weeks. However we acquired it executed at present.”
In response to a Wall Avenue Journal report printed on Sept. 5, the president’s daughter and former White Home adviser, Ivanka Trump, was additionally concerned in planning the upcoming UFC fights.
Trump floated the concept of UFC coming to DC in July. He instructed a crowd in Iowa, “We’re going to have a UFC struggle, consider this, on the grounds of the White Home. We now have a variety of land there. We’re going to construct just a little — we’re not, Dana’s going to do it. Dana’s nice. One in every of a form.”
Trump has been seen at a number of UFC occasions all through yr. In April, he had a high-profile look at UFC 314 in his second house state of Florida. The New York-raised billionaire then sat cage-side with White at UFC 316 in New Jersey in June.
On each events, Trump acquired loud standing ovations from the UFC crowds in Miami’s Kaseya Heart and Newark’s Prudential Heart regardless of being a polarizing determine to the final American public.