‘Whaddya Think About Newscum?’: Gavin Newsom Recalls Trump Phone Call

By Francesca Maglione, Bloomberg

It was the night before Donald Trump was set to dispatch federal troops to Los Angeles, and Gavin Newsom was on the phone with the US president.

The subject of their conversation was anything but the military deployment.

“Whaddya think about Newscum? It’s pretty good, isn’t it?” the California governor recalled Trump asking him, referring to the nickname the president had coined. Newsom said he replied: “Well, it’s not really original. There...