Newsom Trolls Trump With AI Chatbot Over Wildfire Claims

President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s war of words took another bizarre turn this week — and this time, the Democrat used an ex-Trump crony’s tool against him.

During a White House Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump again accused Newsom of mishandling California’s wildfire response, launching into one of his trademark rants about water supplies.

“We send hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day into the Pacific Ocean,” Trump claimed. “They turn a valve, and the valve heads out. And we turned the valve back. I actually had to do it using force. … Gavin Newscum, turn the rest of the water on,” he added, using his nickname for the governor.

In January, after devastating fires in Los Angeles, the California Department of Water Resources fact-checked Trump’s claim that he had sent in the military to “turn on” federal water pumps, noting this was untrue.

“The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days,” a department statement read on X. “State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.”

Apparently armed with this knowledge, Newsom turned to X’s AI chatbot, Grok, to continue trolling Trump.

“Do people with dementia repeat false things over and over again?” he asked the bot.

Grok responded: “Yes, people with dementia can repeat false statements or beliefs, a behavior often linked to memory impairments and cognitive changes. This can manifest as confabulation, where they create or repeat false memories to fill gaps in recollection, or perseveration, where they fixate on a particular idea or statement.”

“The governor is incompetent,” Trump told reporters. “I know Gavin very well. He’s an incompetent guy with a good line of bullshit — and he doesn’t get the job done.”

Newsom fired back on X with a few more Trumpisms, writing, “Such low energy. SAD!”