California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is calling out President Donald Trump again for spreading misinformation.
On Sunday, Trump doubled back on his repeated, false claims about rigged elections, claiming this time that he would’ve won California in the 2024 presidential election if he hadn’t been cheated by the Democratic party.
The president made the comments while delivering remarks at a White House Christmas reception.
“If the vote in California was legitimate, which it’s not. If 38 million ballots … Everything is mail-in voting. They mail out 38 million ballots and they come in — where the hell do they go and where do they come from?” he asked the crowd.
The right-wing leader continued, “It’s a rigged election in California because we would win California by a lot. And again, they feel they have the advantage with the Hispanic, they don’t because I won the Hispanic vote.”
Trump’s opponent in the 2024 presidential race, former Vice President Kamala Harris, won the 54 electoral votes in California by a sizable margin, according to multiple polls.
Trump also accused California of being “so rigged” more than “any other [state].”
Newsom didn’t hesitate to mock Trump for his erroneous claims on Sunday.
In an X post alongside a clip of the president’s comments, the California governor simply wrote, “Hahahahahahahahaha ok.”
Earlier in his speech at the White House, Trump accused Democrats of being “professionals at cheating” in elections.
Claiming that “we won in [the] 2016 [presidential election] by a lot,” Trump went on to allege that his administration has “truckloads” of evidence to show Democrats “rigged” the 2020 election.
“We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads. But then we won again in 2024 with an election we call ‘too big to rig,’” he said. “And we were leading big in the polls, but I said, ‘Go out and vote, you gotta go out and vote, make it too big to rig.’”
Trump added, “[The Democrats] tried to rig it, but they couldn’t do it. It was too big to rig … too many votes.”
Watch Trump’s full remarks below.