California Governor Gavin Newsom poured water on President Trump’s cabinet meeting on Tuesday by implying that the president is suffering from dementia.
About 30 minutes into the cabinet meeting, President Trump took aim at Governor “Newscum” and repeated a far-flung claim, which he’s made several times, that the federal government had to force California to “turn on the water“ after wildfires earlier this year.
Newsom reposted a clip on X of Trump’s diatribe and responded with a barb of his own: a screenshot of an interaction with Grok, the platform’s built-in AI chatbot, in which Grok was asked, “Do people with dementia repeat false things over and over again?”
The chatbot responded in the affirmative: “Yes, people with dementia can repeat false statements or beliefs, a behavior oft