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[quote=Anonymous]Since this thread covered his dyslexia, cultural appropriation, affair etc. Here’s the part that matters.

CNN February 22, 2026 Transcript:

[b]DANA BASH[/b]: The Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs this week. He's already using different authorities to impose a 15 percent global tariff, vowing to forge ahead even without Congress. What do you do?

[b]GAVIN NEWSOM[/b]: Well, what does anyone do? You're going to move your factory from overseas and onshore it with a 150-day certainty on a 15 percent tax or tariff?

I mean, the whole thing is a farce. I talk about petulance. It was 10 percent two days ago, maybe 20 percent tomorrow.

I mean, this is madness. He's flailing. He's a punch-drunk boxer. He's just trying to hit anything, a shadow. And he's a shadow of himself. He's lost a step or two.

Under the IEEPA, we were the first state to sue. I was out there in the Central Valley talking about how this is going to impact ranchers and small businesses and farmers, the ag community, in my state larger than any other state in the country.

And Justice Roberts, by the way, basically, our arguments were literally laid out in detail in his response. So it was always an illegal act. He needs to return that money. He needs to refund that money with interest. He could do that in a nanosecond. They could do that electronically.

[b]DANA BASH[/b]: How?

[b]GAVIN NEWSOM[/b]: They can do it electronically. They have the tariff codes. They have the ability. They do refunds all the time.   They have the ability to do that.

The problem is, for families, it's been about $1,701 a year. That's a different requirement that I think he has to pay the American people back. I saw Bessent out there almost gleeful.   He was gleeful that, no, we won't be doing it.

This is dumb and dumber, Trump and Bessent. They have wrecked this economy, 1.4 percent GDP growth in the last quarter, inflation back up to 3 percent, the worst jobs market we have seen since 2013, 2.2 percent GDP for the entire year. He inherited 2.8.

It's a wrecking ball presidency. He's wrecking this economy. His entire economic paradigm is mass deportations, tax cuts for billionaires, and tariffs. And he's been exposed. He's a fraud.

And, by the way, the tariff, this is a self-dealing operation.   This is about his personal portfolio. You know exactly what he did in Vietnam with the tariffs. He used them to get a deal on his golf course to fast-track his development.

Connect the dots. This is unprecedented grift happening in real time.   That's reflected in what just happened with the tariff decision in the Supreme Court. It was a profound moment for this administration.

[b]DANA BASH[/b]: I do want to, while we're on the economy, ask about affordability, because, yes, people are struggling all across the country.   California has the highest cost of living in the nation. The state's prices are 11 percent higher than the national average. We were actually out to dinner here in Nashville last night. We met a couple from California. They moved out of California because they couldn't afford the rent or even to buy a home and also start a family.

[b]GAVIN NEWSOM[/b]: Yes, we have had hundreds of thousands of people move into California. The last two, three years, we have seen population growth. As you know, we moved from six to the fourth largest economy in the world. And we dominate now in every key industry, from A.I., quantum, robotics.   We dominate in ag. We dominate in forestry. We dominate in manufacturing.

[b]DANA BASH[/b]: But people are struggling to afford things, like your mom was.

[b]GAVIN NEWSOM[/b]: And that's why we did $11 insulin, first of its kind in the United States. It's why we have universal health care and the lowest uninsured rate in the country, 6.4 percent.

That's why we just subsidized over 300,000 childcare slots, more than any other state in the nation.

That's why 65 percent of people graduate from the U.C. and CSU with zero debt.

That's why we have the highest minimum wage for health care workers, $25, in the United States, for fast-food workers, $20 minimum wage.   So we're looking at it from both sides.

That's why we have a parents agenda that expanded paid sick leave and extended to eight weeks of paid family leave, all to support families, to address cost of living and to address the affordability crisis that goes back literally 70 years in California, for one reason.

We're as dumb as we want to be on housing, and we haven't been able to get out of our way. It explains more things in more ways and more days of what's wrong with our state.

And, finally, we moved forward with historic housing reforms that even our worst critics, including some on the left, like my friend Ezra Klein, acknowledged were the most progressive and perhaps most impactful reforms in a generation to finally address that issue.
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