California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s online trolling act has claimed another victim: Kid Rock.
The musician and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump was triggered on Monday by a post from Newsom’s press office account that used an AI image of Kid Rock to claim he endorsed the governor.
Kid Rock shared the image and disputed it with a “deez nuts” reference:
Newsom and his team have been posting trolling messages similar to and in some cases nearly identical to Trump’s, right down to the all-caps howling and use of AI images.
Many of the same right-wing figures who celebrate Trump are offended by Newsom’s political performance art, including several Fox News hosts and, now, Kid Rock.
The Kid Rock post was a reference to Trump last year sharing an AI image of pop icon Taylor Swift to claim ― falsely ― that she had endorsed him.
When she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris instead, Trump wrote: “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”
Naturally, Newsom offered the same response to Kid Rock:
The account added a followup mimicking another Trump post on Swift: