Newsom Rips Trump For Lying About Phone Call As LA Protests Raged

California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed Donald Trump as a “stone-cold liar” in an interview on MSNBC, insisting that the former president’s angry public posturing did not match the tone he struck during a Friday phone call, The Daily Beast's Josephine Harvey reported.

Newsom said he and Trump spoke late Friday night—around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in Washington, D.C.—but the former president never mentioned the National Guard. I Photo: Governor Gavin Newsom X

Trump has been attacking the Democratic governor on Truth Social after deploying National Guard troops to Los Angeles—against Newsom’s wishes—to intervene in protests that erupted in the city.

The troops arrived Sunday, and tensions between protesters and law enforcement escalated throughout the day.

Newsom said he and Trump spoke late Friday night—around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in Washington, D.C.—but the former president never mentioned the National Guard. “We talked for almost 20 minutes, and this issue never came up,” Newsom said on MSNBC.

“I tried to talk about LA; he wanted to talk about all these other issues. We had a very decent conversation.”

He continued: “He never once brought up the National Guard. He’s a stone-cold liar. He said he did. Stone. Cold. Liar. Never did.”

The California governor added, “There’s no working with the president. There’s only working for him—and I will never work for Donald Trump. You’re creating the conditions that you claim you’re solving,” Newsom emphasized.