The Newsom-Trump Beef Heats Up

Pivot

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4.3 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Kara and Scott discuss the tensions flaring between President Trump and Governor Gavin Newsom over the National Guard’s LA deployment. Then, Elon Musk regrets “some” of his recent posts about Trump, and X lures advertisers by getting litigious. All of that plus: the U.S.-China trade deal is back, OpenAI makes a deal with Google, and more. Watch this episode on the ⁠⁠Pivot YouTube channel⁠⁠. Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @pivotpodcastofficial. Follow us on Bluesky at @pivotpod.bsky.social. Follow us on TikTok at @pivotpodcast. Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.9	Yeah, it's true. You're not a journalist, but you're something. I don't know what you are.
0:41.1	Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from New York Magazine at the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher.
0:46.4	And I'm Scott Galloway.
0:47.7	I am about to be in a city that has having a military parade, Scott. I am wishing I had gotten out of town.
0:55.5	We'll talk about that in a minute, but.
0:57.5	Are you in L.A.?
0:58.8	I'm in D.C.
0:59.9	No, not L.A.
1:01.1	There's nothing.
1:01.7	I have all the tanks here.
1:03.1	That's where the actual insurrection is going on.
1:05.9	That's what I caught.
1:06.9	Literally, why doesn't he just stay at home?
1:09.5	Yeah. And literally, why doesn't he just stay at home and, like, masturbate to the apprentice martial law episode or something?
1:15.8	I don't know.
1:16.8	I don't know.
1:18.4	Can you believe it?
1:19.3	A military parade?
1:20.6	It's insane.
1:22.0	It's insane.
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