California Governor Gavin Newsom Says He’s Indefinitely Suspending Kid Rock From Performing In His State

Not sure Bob is going to care.

If you haven’t been keeping up with Gavin Newsom’s new bit, the California governor has adopted an…interesting strategy over on X/Twitter lately as he gears up for a 2028 presidential run, apparently trying to match President Donald Trump’s trolling and beat him at his own game.

The problem with that, obviously, is that Trump is the master. It’s not fake, it’s not a bit, it’s just who he is, and that’s why it works for him. He’s unintentionally hilarious, even when he’s saying the most off-the-wall stuff you’ve ever heard and throwing brand new insults at his critics. The governor, on the other hand, is simply copying Trump. And you know what they say about the copies never being able to match the originals.

Well one of Newsom’s favorite targets has been Kid Rock (whose real name is Bob Ritchie), an outspoken Trump supporter who’s never been afraid to take aim at the governor himself.

Last month, the governor’s troll press office account posted an AI-generated image of Kid Rock endorsing Newsom:

And Kid Rock quickly fired back in the most Kid Rock way possible:

Classic Bob.

Well obviously the big conversation this week has been the suspension of late night host Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of his comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

In case you somehow missed it, during his show on Monday, Kimmel seemed to suggest, contrary to the evidence, that the shooter was right-wing or “MAGA.”

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

Now, from everything we know about the shooter, who has been identified as 22-year old Tyler Robinson, he was left-leaning and had made comments calling Kirk “full of hate.” He was also reportedly in a relationship with his transgender roommate, so he doesn’t exactly sound like your typical Trump supporter.

But you know how it goes when these things happen: Everybody rushes to try to accuse the shooter of being on the other side, regardless of what the evidence actually shows, which seems to be exactly what Kimmel did.

Well long story short, his comments caught the attention of FCC chair Brendan Carr, and ABC station owners Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group both announced they would be pulling Kimmel from their stations, leading ABC to also suspend production of the show.

The whole thing has led to a debate around free speech, with the left upset that the FCC pressured broadcasters and ABC to pull the show over his political comments (even though what he said was a blatant lie).

And of course Newsom had to try to get some of that attention himself, with his “press account” taking to Twitter to announce their own response to Kimmel being suspended:

“BECAUSE OF HIS HORRIFIC MUSIC, CALIFORNIA WILL INDEFINITELY SUSPEND KID ROCK FROM PERFORMING IN THE GOLDEN STATE. YOU’RE WELCOME! — GCN”

Of course the whole thing is just a joke: Kid Rock is not really “suspended” from performing in California. It’s just Newsom’s bizarre attempt at trolling the right and trying to mock Trump’s tweeting style.

But it also goes to show you just how unoriginal and unfunny the whole bit from Newsom really is.The post California Governor Gavin Newsom Says He’s Indefinitely Suspending Kid Rock From Performing In His State first appeared on Whiskey Riff.