Gavin Newsom said state’s threat-assessment center would be on heightened alert after president’s remarks

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, on Tuesday directed the state’s emergency preparedness center to “actively monitor” possible threats to the state after Donald Trump suggested Iran could “take out” the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego.

Trump has faced a chorus of condemnation from Democratic leaders in California after his comments at a rally in Nebraska on Monday night, which the White House has suggested were being taken out of context.

At the president’s rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, Trump claimed that high prices due to the war with Iran are a “small price to pay for keeping the world safe – keeping our country safe”. He went on: “They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” The crowd applauded the line.

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      7 days ago

      Businesses submit the majority of taxes going to the government. How do you all not know how taxes work?

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      IKR? California has nearly 40 million people in it, meanwhile this stupid assfuck of a “president” and most of his cult have California Derangement Syndrome and normal people have to hear about how much all these idiots hate what is probably the most important and profitable state in the nation.

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    At what point are americans going to decide they’ve had enough. Clearly not yet. Will it take an american nuke dropped on an american city by an american president in an american false flag?

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    11 days ago

    “taken out of context” what context, pray tell, makes the President saying this ok

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      If nothing else, there is a sudden glut of military-trained individuals who now have a chip on their shoulder for being unjustly fired. The Blue States should make a point of preemptively scouting and hiring on everyone who has been tossed out of the Federal government. Military, domestic, all of them. Their skills will be needed to make the machinery of the Blue States to run smoothly.