Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., raised some eyebrows on Monday with what many on social media considered to be a “tone-deaf” tweet for Memorial Day.
After hours without commenting on the holiday honoring fallen service members, Newsom surprised social media users by tweeting a cartoon without a caption making a point on gun control and book bans. The image depicted a child trying to reach a book on a high shelf with several guns hanging lower on the wall.
The timing of this image, along with the obvious political implications, drew intense backlash from Twitter users attacking the governor for ignoring the holiday to make a partisan point.
“A weird thing to post on Memorial Day. I wonder if Gavin Newsom asks his armed law enforcement, which he uses for security, where they store their guns and place their bookshelves,” Seattle radio host Jason Rantz remarked.
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Conservative writer Chad Felix Greene wrote, “I don’t think you quite get what you want to share here, Gavin.”
“I couldn’t believe how many people were tricked by an obvious AOC parody account, but then I thought this was from a Gavin Newsom parody account,” The Daily Wire’s Frank Fleming joked.
Five Times August frontman Brad Skistimas tweeted, “What the illustration isn’t showing you is that those books are filled with porn and propaganda designed to confuse young minds. Gavin Newsom wants your kids reading this.”
“California has the most mass shootings in the United States. California has the strictest gun laws in the United States. Can Gavin Newsom please explain this?” conservative influencer Paul Szypula commented.
“This is almost but not quite as tone deaf and dumb as Trump’s statement today,” National Review contributor Pradheep Shanker tweeted.
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Newsom later retweeted a statement from the…
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