Overview

• Late Wednesday, Trump posted a barrage of digitally altered and AI-generated videos on Truth Social targeting Gavin Newsom, Sen. Adam Schiff, and governors JB Pritzker and Chris Christie.
• The posts included a clip of a Newsom look-alike flailing at a punching bag with Trump’s face, an edited video showing Newsom in a red “Trump 2028” hat, an elongated-neck Schiff, and a Pritzker–Christie sumo bout.
• Newsom and his press team quickly fired back on X with AI-edited counter-memes, including a Life Alert parody, a clip of the governor jailing a toddler-sized Trump, and a separate post questioning whether repeating false claims signals dementia.
• At a White House gaggle earlier Wednesday, Trump called Newsom “grossly incompetent,” blamed California officials for the Pacific Palisades fires, and fielded a prompt about a possible congressional probe without explicitly backing one.
• Some edited clips shared by Trump appear to trace to an outside pro-Trump mememaking network linked in reporting to podcaster Brenden Dilley, highlighting questions about content provenance and potential misinformation.