The story of William Newsom is one of success and comfort. The father of presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom, William’s job was to manage the Gordon P. Getty family trust fund valued at billions of dollars.
As one would expect, William was well-educated, attending the most expensive institutions in the country, including Santa Clara University as an undergraduate and Stanford Law, before becoming a lawyer, later a judge, and eventually serving at the right hand of one of the wealthiest people in the country, Gordon Getty.
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Gavin Newsom would later attend Santa Clara University. Shortly after graduation, he founded PlumpJack Winery. Of course, opening a business in wine country can be extremely costly, but fortunately for Newsom, he was seen as a family member to Gordon Getty, who promptly invested not just in the winery but also in 10 of the 11 businesses the future governor would open while still in his mid-twenties.
In other words, Gavin Newsom is a man of immense privilege. But that story will not fly in a Democratic primary for president, because this is a party now built primarily on grievance and victimhood. Newsom knows he has to pivot to appeal to the far Left, just as other privileged children, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani, have in portraying themselves as disadvantaged and oppressed.
And boy, did he ever during a podcast called All The Smoke, which is hosted by former NBA players this week.
“It was also about paying the bills, man. It was just like hustlin’ and so I was out there, kind of raising myself, turning on the TV, just getting obsessed,” he said with an accent that appeared to be pandering to his Black hosts. “I was sitting there with the Wonder Bread … the macaroni and cheese. That’s how I grew up, bro!”
If you’re cringing right now as you’ve never cringed before, that’s understandable. And it gets worse: “Every day in the backyard, bouncing the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall unit, entertaining yourself. Then this sh***y student, head down, started throwing. The baseball got a little faster. I started making a few free throws, practicing 500 of them every night in high school.”
It’s like Eminem meets Michael Jordan. What a story!
But according to a report in The Press Democrat, Newsom “spent part of his childhood years in a two-story house with magnificent views of San Francisco. It is currently listed at $3.6 million.” How can that be?
And you’ll never guess who was featured in a 1991 article by the San Francisco Chronicle titled, “Children of the Rich” … Gavin Christopher Newsom.
Note: Newsom’s parents were divorced in 1971. Gavin went to live with his mother, Tessa, in the aforementioned house above. He played sports in high school, which, from experience, doesn’t allow for much time to work, or, in Snoop Gov’s words, “hustlin’.”
And if Newsom grew up poor in the heart of San Francisco with magnificent views from his home, why exactly did Gordon Getty swoop in right after college graduation to invest in a winery and nine other businesses?
According to polls, Newsom is polling at or near the top for the Democratic nomination for president, along with AOC and Pete Buttigieg. To get past both of them in the primary, he’s going to have to go even further to the left, if that’s humanly possible.
This may explain why the governor completely shapeshifted his position on the woke movement.
On All The Smoke this week: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-black. Period. Full stop. All this CRT, ESG, DEI stuff, that’s all this is. It’s this great purge,”
But this flies in the face of what he told the late Charlie Kirk earlier this year about transgender men competing against biological women in sports. “I think it’s an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness. It’s deeply unfair,” Newsom said. “I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”
In the same interview, he called police defunding “lunacy,” dismissed “cancel culture,” and criticized the leadership of the Black Lives Matter organization.
“Democrats are losing,” he added regarding their stances on cultural issues. “We’re toast.”
But when speaking to a different podcast, like All The Smoke, Newsom shifted back to whatever he wanted the hosts and its audience to hear, calling anti-wokeness “anti-black.”
Kirk would later write in a Fox News opinion piece that Newsom is a force to be reckoned with, only because of his unrelenting desire to be president. He is betting that voters will simply forget about Newsom’s actual actions, or lack thereof, which include his refusal to reverse California’s existing policy on men competing in women’s sports. In July, Trump’s DOJ announced it was suing California as a result. “Unsurprisingly, Newsom is charming and friendly in person. You don’t become governor of 40 million people without having some charisma,” Kirk noted. “But there’s clearly a layer beneath the charm. I saw that Newsom wants to be president more than any living person (and possibly every dead person, too).”
“The governor isn’t a joke. He has a shark’s instincts and is hoping that voters will have a goldfish’s memory,” he added.
So, Newsom’s plan is simple: run hard to the Left in the primary because moderates don’t have the same level of enthusiasm as the Left. New York City’s mayoral race is a prime example, with a Communist likely becoming the leader of the world’s financial capital. And to Kirk’s point, Newsom has the ambition and the ability to conform to any position based on the polling and public mood, hypocrisy be damned.
Speaking of hypocrisy, this isn’t anything new for Newsom, either. No one in the country was more draconian with mask mandates and business closures than California. But there was a maskless, unvaccinated Newsom at the ritzy French Laundry, a long way from the poor Wonder Bread days, in wine country during 2020, laughing it up with other rich folks as businesses went bankrupt and children became depressed from being isolated from their classmates.
And who could forget the Super Bowl in February 2022, when a maskless Newsom was taking photos with celebrities at the indoor stadium while Newsom was STILL imposing a mask mandate at all California public schools.
Will he be the Democratic nominee? He has as good a shot as any, although privileged, rich white guys may not ultimately fly with the current Democratic Party. But if that does happen, ask yourself this:
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Could you honestly see steel workers in Pennsylvania, auto workers in Michigan, farmers in Wisconsin, hotel and restaurant service workers in Nevada, those who care about the border in Arizona, or Independents in North Carolina and Georgia embracing a slick California elitist with no moral compass in a general election?
He has the same problem as former Vice President Kamala Harris. And if Democrats actually do nominate Newsom, let’s just say the bet here is that his lifelong dream of being Celebrity-in-Chief at 1600 will not be realized.
Because nobody likes a phony.
