#TrumpVsMusk Donald Trump backs arrest threat against California Governor Newsom: ‘I would do it if I were Tom’

US President Donald Trump escalated his feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday (June 9), suggesting that Newsom should be arrested after publicly daring Border Czar, Tom Homan, to do so.

"I would do it if I were Tom"

Speaking briefly to reporters after landing at the White House, Trump responded to Newsom’s defiant remarks made during a TV interview. “I would do it if I were Tom,” Trump said, referring to Homan. “I like Gavin Newsom… he’s a nice guy, but he’s grossly incompetent.”

Newsom’s dare sparks reaction

The remarks come days after Newsom challenged Homan on MSNBC, saying: “He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me… So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.”

“The very incompetent ‘Governor,’ Gavin Newscum, and ‘Mayor,’ Karen Bass, should be saying, ‘THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR,’” Trump wrote.

“Instead, they choose to lie… by saying that we weren’t needed, and that these are ‘peaceful protests.’ Just one look at the pictures and videos of the Violence and Destruction tells you all you have to know.”