{"id":3635,"date":"2026-02-20T23:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:40:28","slug":"newsom-trolls-trump-by-calling-him-dozy-don-for-closing-his-eyes-joe-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"Newsom trolls Trump by calling him \u2018Dozy Don\u2019 for closing his eyes &#8211; JOE.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gavin Newsom trolls \u2018Dozy Don\u2019 as president appears to fall asleep at \u2018Board of Peace\u2019\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full object-cover rounded-md\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 620 500'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAACEN3D\/AAAAL0lEQVR42mP4z8DAwMiAARgZGJhY+P\/\/PwMDAwPDfwYGBgaGhgYGhgYGAAD9Hwlr5xRngAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-newsom.png?height=575&amp;width=1024\"\/><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>Trump gets a taste of his own medicine<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Donald Trump has been labelled \u201cDazy Don\u201d by the press office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, as the president seemed to close his eyes at an event for the Board of Peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>On Thursday, during the board\u2019s first meeting, Trump announced that member nations had pledged $7 billion toward a Gaza reconstruction fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>To the Board of Peace the US will contribute $10 billion, he announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>However, Trump seemed tired and as though he was falling asleep during the event, which didn\u2019t go unnoticed on social media, or by Gavin Newsom and his team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>His press office shared a brief video for the president, whose eyes appeared closed during a speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not a still photo of Dozy Don. He\u2019s really just asleep\u201d, the Newsom press office captioned the clip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Newsom is considered a front-runner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination and over the past year he has used social media to hit out at the president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He even mimics Trump\u2019s online posting style, as he also writes in all-caps and signs posts with his initials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>A former Republican congressman, Adam Kinzinger, wrote on X: \u201cPoor low energy Donald. He\u2019s tuckered out\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The jokes continued, as a political group founded by Republicans who are anti-Trump, The Lincoln Project, posted a still photo in which Trump appeared with his eyes shut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cBored of Peace\u201d, the organisation commented.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>White House spokesperson Anna Kelly was reached for comment by The Independent, and she said that \u201cPresident Trump is the sharpest, most accessible, and energetic president in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cWhile the deranged and failing Independent has their \u2018reporters\u2019 push baseless conspiracy theories \u2014 President Trump is securing world peace,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Newsom #trolls #Trump #calling #Dozy #Don #closing #eyes #JOE.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump gets a taste of his own medicine Donald Trump has been labelled \u201cDazy Don\u201d by the press office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, as the president seemed to close his eyes at an event for the Board of Peace. On Thursday, during the board\u2019s first meeting, Trump announced that member nations had pledged $7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1971,2337,3443,2707,1000,3442,1279,3439,2861,3440,3441,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-3635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-board-of-peace","9":"tag-calling","10":"tag-closing","11":"tag-don","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-dozy","14":"tag-eyes","15":"tag-gavin-newsom","16":"tag-joe-co-uk","17":"tag-newsom","18":"tag-trolls","19":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}