A progressive analyst fired back at President Donald Trump's supporters, who are calling on a prominent Democratic lawmaker to shape up his online behavior.
For the last several days, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been trolling Trump online by imitating his syntax, diction, and capitalization style in several posts. Trump supporters on Fox News, News Nation, and social media have come to the president's defense, telling Newsom that he needs to cut it out.
Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen mocked the outrage from Trump supporters on his show "No Lie" on Tuesday. Cohen argued that Newsom was simply providing a "mirror" for Trump supporters.
"The reality is that the reason these Republicans are melting down is because they don't know how to handle the fact that Newsom is exposing the humiliating behavior that they themselves have supported and normalized," Cohen said.
"All Newsom's doing is acting as a mirror," Cohen continued. "And it's embarrassing for them. They would love for him to stop because then the stuff that they approve of that they've been approving of for years wouldn't be so obvious to the rest of the country."
Cohen then played multiple clips of TV hosts defending Trump against Newsom's posts.
"Just so I'm understanding here, Newsom, the governor of California, is directly imitating the president of the United States," Cohen said. "But his imitating the president is somehow disqualifying him from being president? Please, someone, make it make sense."