Dana Perino Defends Her Criticism Of Newsom Mocking Trump

However doing so required her to disregard the rationale for the governor’s current mockery of Donald Trump’s social media fashion and demand Newsom is simply being a copycat.

Newsom has not too long ago been mocking MAGA by mimicking the president’s all-caps on-line posts, full with insults and ludicrously narcissistic reward of himself.

On Monday, Perino prompt with a straight face that Newsom has “to cease it with the Twitter factor,” claiming he was “making a idiot” of himself within the course of.

Many individuals on social media mocked Perino’s complaints about Newsom’s posts as a result of a lot of them are direct copies of earlier Trump posts. In consequence, she confronted accusations of hypocrisy and having a partisan double normal the place imply tweets are involved.

Perino tried to defend her pearl-clutching by saying, “We get the joke,” although her excuse required her to be humorless.

“He was studying tweets that had been written for him by folks that he’s closely investing in to attempt to assist him look extra like Trump, I suppose,” she mentioned. “I imply, I believed they hated Trump, however they’re attempting to be extra like him they usually should pay folks to do it.”

She additionally insisted that the issue she had with Newsom’s posts is that they weren’t genuine.

She added: “You’re attempting to do anyone else who you say is Hitler, and also you suppose that we don’t get the joke. Oh, no, we get the joke. It’s simply not humorous.”

Perino’s co-host, Jesse Watters, additionally appeared a bit miffed at Newsom for following the lead of the GOP’s fearless chief.

“They declare conservatives don’t get the joke, we do ― we simply suppose you appear like a device,” he mentioned with out irony.

Each Perino and Watters’ lame defenses of their partisan double requirements had been mocked by others on social media.