'Clown': Gavin Newsom Files Hurt Feelings Report on Ted Cruz, Commits Embarrassing Self-Own Instead

2026 has started off much the same way 2025 did among Democrats, with the party still desperately searching for an anti-Trump "fighter," and with some of its self-styled "leaders" testing the waters for a possible 2028 presidential run.

 Among them has been Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who abandoned his 2026 gubernatorial reelection campaign in January after his abysmal performance at the helm of his state amid the widespread fraud allegations and investigations. 

There was also his atrocious mismanagement of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in the North Star State, where he referred to ICE agents as Trump's "modern-day Gestapo" and encouraged agitators to follow and film the officers in the course of their duties in removing criminal illegal immigrants off the streets.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has perhaps been the most high-profile Democrat openly putting out feelers for a potential 2028 run, admitting in October that he was "looking at" the possibility, though it had been obvious for four years or so with his cross-country tours and his visits overseas to establish national and international profiles.

But though Newsom would have a majority of Americans believe he can leap tall Trump buildings in a single bound, apparently, he's not man enough to accept someone correctly describing him as "historically illiterate," which we learned Monday afternoon via a tweet he wrote complaining that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was supposedly making fun of his dyslexia:

Ted Cruz calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him. https://t.co/XC75ybiGKd

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 16, 2026

Are you... kidding me? He doesn't know that someone being described as "historically illiterate" is not the same as outright accusing someone of being illiterate? 

Good grief. Talk about a self-own.

I dunno what's funnier, that the Governor of California doesn't know the difference between illiterate and historically illiterate, or his desperation to claim victimhood https://t.co/ki1D1krNgi

— Aaron Krol (@aaronkrol) February 17, 2026

It's all Democrats ever do anymore - claim victimhood and file Hurt Feelings Reports, which to them are supposed to be substitutes for substantive debates on the issues.

Relatedly, Cruz himself responded to Newsom by calling him a clown and pointing to the actual argument he (Cruz) was making:

I didn’t say you couldn’t read, you 🤡 

I said you were “historically illiterate”…

….because you apparently have no idea that Eisenhower federalized the national guard to stop Dem governors from defying federal law.

Specifically, on September 23, 1957, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, federalizing the Arkansas National Guard & ordering U.S. Army troops (101st Airborne Div) to Little Rock, Arkansas. This action broke the blockade by Dem Gov Orval Faubus, allowing the Little Rock Nine to desegregate Central High School.

https://t.co/63z3bou9A0 pic.twitter.com/C1fi99axwq

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 17, 2026

In any event, methinks the Golden State governor has sort of just proven the old saying about how it is "better for people to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," bless his heart. This was one of those times where it might have been wise for once for his even more obnoxious half (Mrs. Newsom) to interrupt him while he was tweeting. But honestly, I'm kinda glad she didn't.

Editor's Note: President Trump is leading America into the "Golden Age" as Democrats try desperately to stop it.