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Gavin Newsom was caught flat-footed this week after boasting on his own podcast in March that his 13-year-old son was so eager to meet Charlie Kirk he wanted to skip school — a story the governor happily told with a grin while sitting next to Kirk. That vivid anecdote was replayed across conservative outlets and it painted Newsom as eager to show a friendly, bipartisan side — until he decided to walk it back.
Now, when pressed about his son’s reaction after Kirk was murdered on September 10, 2025, Newsom told CNN that his son “wasn’t a fan of him as much as he was familiar with him,” a revisionist line that smells of political self-preservation. Governors don’t get to flip their stories when the political winds change, and this backpedal exposes the veneer of Newsom’s charm offensive.
Let’s be blunt: Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10 was a national tragedy that demanded solemnity and unity, not political spin. Newsom’s original March 6, 2025 podcast exchange — where he openly praised Kirk’s campus influence and even joked about his son’s excitement — is on the record and no amount of Tuesday-morning quarterbacking can erase that moment.
This isn’t some innocent memory lapse; it’s a pattern. As outlet after outlet has pointed out, Newsom’s recent comments are part of a steady attempt to court attention from both sides while keeping his presidential ambitions intact, and when the optics got messy he smoothed them over with a convenient “familiar with him” line. Voters deserve consistency, not opportunism from a man who’s auditioning for higher office.
Americans who put in honest work every day can see what’s happening: a governor who will cozy up to a conservative figure for PR when it suits him, then rewrite the script once the heat is on. That’s the kind of self-serving, image-first politics that has driven so many away from the establishment parties and toward leaders who actually mean what they say.
Hardworking patriots should demand straight talk and steady leadership, not manufactured stories and quick edits. If Gavin Newsom wants to be taken seriously as a national leader, he should stop treating the truth like a political prop and start showing Americans the integrity they deserve.
