Gavin Newsom's Press Office roasts Trump for 'plan to distract' social media post

Gavin Newsom's Press Office has mocked Donald Trump with a late night social media post detailing the president's "plan to distract".

An edited image of Trump meeting with fellow world leaders was circulated by the Governor of California's Press Office on X, and has since gone viral. Nearly 2,000 users liked the post, which featured Trump sat in the Oval Office next to an image of the US, Canada, and Venezuela all painted in stars and stripes.

The image was also captioned, "Plan to distract from the Epstein files." Governor Newsom's Press Office appeared to accuse Trump of using international conflict as a way to distract from the release of documents from late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A deadline of December 19 was given for releasing all of Epstein's files, but as of January 21, less than 1% of the files are publicly available. Governor Newsom's Press Office is not the only call for the Department of Justice to speed up their process of releasing the files.

Talk show host Stephen Colbert compiled a lengthy list of controversies which Trump and his administration had overseen through 2025, and suggested these were distraction tactics to cover up the slow trickle of Epstein file releases.

Following a clip package of Trump's controversial decisions during the first year of his second term in office, Colbert said, "You didn't remember most of that stuff, because every single day there's some new Trump horror dominating the headlines.

"Case in point, Trump invaded Venezuela a couple weeks ago, seized their leader, and brought him to Brooklyn. And absolutely nobody is talking about it, not even me, that's f***ing weird.

"It's probably the whole point. Today's maniacal criminality distracts us from yesterday's maniac crimes, which reminds me, where are the Epstein files? Nothing yet? Really? It's the law. You signed it. Just checking."