California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed Donald Trump as a “stone-cold liar” in an MSNBC interview on Sunday, insisting the president’s angry public posturing doesn’t match the tone he struck during a Friday phone call.
Newsom said he and Trump spoke late on Friday night—about 1.30 a.m. Saturday in D.C.—but Trump never brought up the National Guard. The protests broke out on Friday after a series of federal immigration raids on workplaces across Los Angeles.
“We talked for almost 20 minutes and he barely, this issue never came up,” Newsom said on MSNBC. “I tried to talk about L.A., he wanted to talk about all these other issues. We had a very decent conversation.”
“He never once brought up the National Guard. He’s a stone-cold liar,” he added. “He said he did. Stone. Cold. Liar. Never did.”
“There’s no working with the president. There’s only working for him, and I will never work for Donald Trump,” he said.
“You’re creating the conditions that you claim you’re solving,” he later added.
The governor said he’s suing the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard, and the lawsuit will be filed Monday morning.
