Jennifer Siebel Newsom is the very avatar of Democrat Woman.
Haughty, hectoring and pleased with herself, she is single-handedly wrecking her hen-pecked husband Gavin’s lofty political ambitions.
No wonder he’s taken to moping around and crying at press conferences.
As the California governor’s presidential aspirations head south and his state’s woes become impossible to ignore, he’s tried in vain to reset his ailing brand — and now his 51-year-old actress-turned-activist wife is taking over.
Over the weekend, she inserted herself into the news again with an Instagram video pontificating that the departure of Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem from Donald Trump’s Cabinet is proof that the president is waging a “war on all women.”
“I need to call out that it’s no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women,” she opined in a mint green jacket, with her long blond tresses cascading fetchingly over one shoulder.
As she enunciated every bad word she could think of for Trump’s “sexism and misogyny” she bizarrely smiled: “Devalued” — smile. “Degraded” — smile. “Diminished” — smile.
“No woman is safe in Trump’s Republican Party.” Smile, smile, smile.
The title she posted on the screen was: “Some thoughts on the patriarchy.”
Mrs. Newsom has “thoughts” — and boy does she want you to hear them.
Effrontery
Her assertiveness was on full display a few weeks ago when she elbowed her husband away from the podium and took over his press conference to scold the assembled reporters for not being sufficiently admiring of some abortion funding announcement the governor had just made.
“We just find it incredulous that we have Planned Parenthood here, and women are 51% of the population,” she said. “And the majority of the questions — all of these questions — have really been about other issues. So, it’s just fascinating.”
She was greeted by “incredulous” silence.
Not only had she publicly emasculated the governor with the sort of first spouse effrontery we haven’t seen since Hillary Clinton entered the White House, but she showed herself to be incapable of using basic English.
Maybe she thinks “incredulous” is an intellectual version of “incredible.”
But it’s no wonder the self-described “first partner” of California is getting desperate.
National opinion polls show the so-called “embarrassingly handsome” Gov. Newsom is deeply unpopular across the country. Some polls even have two-time loser Kamala Harris beating him in the 2028 Democratic primary.
He’s run his deep blue state so badly that a Republican may win the gubernatorial race this year.
He tried briefly to de-woke himself for a moment in order to appeal across the aisle, when he admitted last year that men don’t belong in women’s sports.
Then he published a memoir pretending he was a poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks when, in fact, his father was a big-time judge and consigliere to the Getty oil dynasty, and Gavin posed with a couple of Getty scions for a “Children of the Rich” feature in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was 24.
He went on a book tour and told a black audience that: “I’m like you . . . I’m no better than you . . . I’m a 960 SAT guy . . . You’ve never seen me read a speech, because I cannot read a speech.”
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‘Underestimated’
The rest has been a flop. Nothing works.
Enter Siebel Newsom, who Marie Claire recently declared in a gushing spread is “the Most Underestimated Woman in American Politics.”
She certainly sees herself that way.
She is about to unleash another gender-obsessed vanity documentary — funded by taxpayers and her husband’s donors — on the state’s struggling public schools. Her last film about — what else — toxic masculinity, was shown in 1,000 schools that had to pay for the privilege.
She prides herself on giving her two sons dolls to play with and claims she changes male characters to female when reading to her children.
She has equated psychologist Jordan Peterson — famous for the sensible advice that self-improvement starts with cleaning your room and taking responsibility for yourself — with “alt-right extremism.”
She has trashed pro-life Christians for living in an “evangelical, conservative silo” that is “pulling us back as a country.”
There is not a lazy, elitist, left-wing cliché she hasn’t espoused.
‘Truly’ deluded
Siebel Newsom is simply a more photogenic version of harridan podcaster Jennifer Welch, who recently berated poor Gavin for timidly suggesting Democrats might maybe try being a bit more “culturally normal” to win elections. He’s clearly seen the polls.
But Democrat grand dames like Welch and Siebel Newsom don’t care about normal. They know they’re superior, more enlightened beings.
Take Siebel Newsom’s self-congratulatory description of a “racism safari” she dragged her poor children to in the unenlightened Deep South a couple of years ago.
In an interview with Jen Psaki, one of Joe Biden’s former spokesclowns, she said the trip, which included a pit stop in Alabama, was to teach her four kids “to be the change they wish to see in the world and recognize that we have work to do [and] speak out when they see bullying and racism and misogyny around them.”
“You want them to see it, so that they know?” Psaki prompted.
“I do, I’m a truth-seeker. They need to know the truth,” the first partner said.
We’re all going to be forced to hear a lot more of Siebel Newsom’s “truth” as she tries to resuscitate her husband’s presidential dreams.
The good news is that, outside California, she loses votes every time she opens her mouth.
