Newsom Calls Out Trump’s Mental State After President Riffs On Difference Between ‘see’ And ‘sea’

California Governor Gavin Newsom took purpose astatine President Donald Trump’s intelligence acuity aft nan president veered into a peculiar speech astir nan quality betwixt “sea” and “see.”

Trump made nan remark during a White House Mother’s Day event connected Wednesday, slipping into nan tangent while discussing crime.

“You spot drug traffic coming into our state is measurement down,” he told a crowd of subject mothers gathered successful nan East Room. “And by sea, by sea, by ocean, by nan water.”

“You cognize a batch of group opportunity ‘what do you mean by sea?’ Is it see, for illustration vision? No it’s sea, S-E-A,” nan 79-year-old president continued.

Shortly after, Newsom took to X to mock nan president and situation him to a cognitive test, mimicking nan all-caps, combative style Trump often uses connected Truth Social.

“‘LITTLE D'S’ BRAIN IS DECLINING RAPIDLY IN REAL TIME,” nan Democratic politician wrote. “TODAY HE WAS CONFUSED BY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘SEE’ AND ‘SEA.’ VERY SAD!”

“I HEREBY CHALLENGE GRANDPA TO A LIVE COGNITIVE TEST ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,” Newsom wrote.

He added that Fox News big Sean Hannity could service arsenic moderator and said he would moreover assistance nan president 3 lifelines (Hannity antecedently moderated a statement betwixt Newsom and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis successful 2023).

"’PERSON, MAN, CAMERA, TV, SQUIRREL, ELEPHANT, GIRAFFE,’” he continued. “LET’S SEE WHO PASSES!!!”

On Monday, Trump boasted astir acing cognitive tests, describing 1 information successful which he was asked to place a squirrel from a group of animals.

When asked for remark by The Daily Beast, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle issued a scathing rebuke of nan governor.

“Gavin Newscum is nan worst politician successful America, and he besides whitethorn beryllium nan dumbest,” Ingle said. “President Trump’s sharpness, unmatched energy, and historical accessibility guidelines successful stark opposition to what we saw during nan past management erstwhile Democrats and different lunatics for illustration Newscum intentionally covered up Joe Biden’s superior intelligence and beingness diminution from nan American people.”

The Independent has reached retired to nan White House.

It’s acold from nan first conflict betwixt nan Democratic politician and nan Republican president. The brace regularly speech barbs.

Newsom, viewed by immoderate arsenic a imaginable 2028 statesmanlike candidate, has lambasted nan president connected a big of issues, including state prices, nan Iran warfare and his handling of nan Epstein files.

In nan past 2 weeks, he’s branded Trump a “moron,” a “HISTORIC LOSER,” and nan “King of Bull****.”

Trump lashed retired astatine Newsom successful a Truth Social station connected May 2, describing him arsenic “an admittedly low-IQ person,” “dumb,” and “essentially incompetent.”