Newsom posts video of Democrats body-slamming GOP after election
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took a victory lap on social media after Democrats swept in the key races across the country Tuesday.
Newsom, the outspoken potential 2028 presidential contender, posted an AI-generated video of professional wrestlers battling each other in a ring, with cutouts of prominent political figures’ faces superimposed over the fighters’ bodies.
The video begins with a wrestler, depicted with President Trump’s face, punching a wrestler with former President Obama’s face. He punches back, sending the Trump fighter stumbling back a few steps. Lying on the ground in the ring is a fighter with a superimposed face resembling Vice President Vance.
As the Trump wrestler stumbles back, another wrestler resembling Newsom emerges from the left and pushes the supposed president back with a garbage can. The Obama figure, on the other side of the ring, kicks Trump back to Newsom, who body-slams him to the ground.
The video then flashes to another scene, depicting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as “Hakeem Rock Bottoms, The Dominator,” slamming a wrestler with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) face pasted onto it.
In another scene, a wrestler depicting White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller stands on the side of the ring, towering over a wrestler resembling Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who is face-down on a table. As Miller’s wrestler jumps off the side — aiming for Padilla — the fighter resembling the Democratic senator swiftly moves out of the way and body-slams the White House aide.
In the final scene, a wrestler with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) face superimposed over it takes down an opponent with White House border czar Tom Homan’s face.
“Now that’s what we call a takedown,” Newsom wrote in his post on the social platform X, attached to the video.
Newsom emerged victorious from Tuesday night’s election after pushing for a mid-decade redistricting effort in his state that would give Democrats the opportunity to pick up as many as five more seats in the 2026 midterm election. The governor has defended the move as a response to a similar effort passed in Texas, for which Trump advocated.
It was a good night for Democrats across the country, with victories in the governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia and the mayoral race in New York City. Newsom touted their successes in several other posts in the hours after the races were called.
In a subsequent message, Newsom shared an AI-generated meme of Trump appearing to shed a tear while wearing a red hat, with white lettering resembling the classic “Make America Great Again” slogan.
The hat, instead of including Trump’s iconic tagline, read, “NEWSOM WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING.”
The Democratic governor also responded to a post from the White House account showing an American flag that read, “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“We just did,” he wrote.