Gavin Newsom unloaded on Donald Trump and sounded the alarm about the future of U.S. democracy during a sharp-edged appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, warning that the 2028 presidential election might not even take place if Americans don’t act.
Newsom pointed to Trump’s 2020 decision to deploy 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests as a red flag. “He sent the military to American cities to police American citizens, and the ICE issue is alarming beyond words,” he said. “It is the largest private domestic army of its type or police force anywhere in the world. He’ll have 30,000 people that increasingly appear to be swearing an oath of office to him, not the Constitution of the United States.”