“Poor Kid Rock.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom has added Kid Rock to his checklist of MAGA of us to troll over the previous month, and folks can’t get sufficient of it.

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Newsom has taken to social media in latest months to emulate President Donald Trump, presumably to mock the president and his supporters, in addition to to focus on how completely absurd it’s to look at a political determine act the best way Trump at all times has on-line.

He has additionally, from time to time, taken goal at different outstanding MAGA figures, and at one level, he looped Kid Rock into the combo.

Gavin Newsom vs Kid Rock

In mid-August, Newsom used the @GovPressOffice X account to publish an AI-generated picture of Kid Rock displaying assist for the CA governor.

Kid Rock couldn’t let or not it’s, and jumped into the fray with a comeback that felt acceptable for every part Kid Rock is.

Obviously, issues stored going from there.

“I HATE KID ROCK !!! — GCN” the @GovPressOffice X account tweeted on Aug. 19.

“HAS ANYONE NOTICED THAT SINCE I SAID “I HATE KID ROCK” HE’S NO LONGER ‘HOT?’ — GCN” the workplace tweeted later that day.

The total escalation was harking back to Trump’s tweets about Taylor Swift. Some of Newsom’s tweets have been, in reality, verbatim apart from swapping in Kid Rock for Swift, and Trump had even shared the same AI picture alleging that Swift (who has brazenly supported Democrat politicians and never Trump) needed folks to vote for him.

Why is Gavin Newsom trolling Kid Rock?

The easy reply to why any of that is taking place is almost certainly simply that Newsom is trolling Kid Rock as a result of he can.

Kid Rock has been one of many uncommon vocal MAGA celebrities within the period of Trump. Perhaps most notably, he jumped on that absurd transphobic bandwagon in opposition to Dylan Mulvaney, which noticed him capturing up a bunch of Bud Light cans in protest of the model sponsoring a video on Mulvaney’s channel. He was noticed ingesting Bud Light in public not lengthy after that little show of fragility.

Taking goal at any MAGA celeb appears like low-hanging fruit at this level. They’re all fairly washed up and determined for any visibility, so it isn’t stunning that Kid Rock took the bait.

Newsom escalates with parody threats

As it seems, Newsom isn’t performed with all of this but. Last week, he used Kid Rock to parody Trump’s threats to strip Rosie O’Donnell of American citizenship by threatening to remove Kid Rock’s California residency—in all caps, in fact.

“BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT KID ROCK IS NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR GREAT STATE, I AM GIVING SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO TAKING AWAY HIS RESIDENCY. HE IS A THREAT TO CALIFORNIA’S EARDRUMS, AND SHOULD REMAIN IN THE WONDERFUL STATE OF MICHIGAN, IF THEY WANT HIM. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” learn the tweet.

Are we in a timeline made up of the weirdest political methods? Yes. But with every part as darkish as it’s, typically you simply must take amusement the place you discover it. And one thing tells us Newsom might be again for extra of all this ragging on Kid Rock any day now.

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