NY Times Columnist Claims Trump Lies About Democrats Wanting Healthcare for Illegals – Then Admits it’s Happening
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently appeared on the podcast of New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. During the episode, in addition to saying that he ‘wants to see trans kids’ Newsom talked about providing healthcare for illegal aliens in his state.
Ezra Klein followed up their discussion by tweeting about it, but in his tweet he says two things that completely contradict each other.
He begins by saying that Trump lies about Democrats wanting healthcare for illegals. Then he says triumphantly that Gavin Newsom is actually doing it!
See below:
Trump often lies about Democrats giving healthcare to undocumented immigrants. In California, Newsom actually did it. And defends it.
“I’m proud of that. I believe in universal health care.”
But, he says, “we failed on the border. We need to own up to that.” pic.twitter.com/5MFgK9tFQu
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 11, 2025
The tweet left a lot of people scratching their heads.
I’ve been reading this tweet for 24 hrs and it gets dumber each time. lol https://t.co/usyCztv01K
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 12, 2025
Trump often lies about the thing that we just admitted…
What?
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 11, 2025
“It’s not happening, and it’s good that it did.” https://t.co/dOW1Qtb0il
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 12, 2025
Setting aside Ezra’s assertion that Trump lies about a thing that is actually happening, Newsom here admits that the Democrats make policy based on what Trump doesn’t want. He says Biden admin opened the border to do the opposite of what Trump wants. https://t.co/0AjMi4xrM5
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) December 12, 2025
“They’re lying about the thing we are proud of” – the Democratic media’s swan song https://t.co/w7f7nxjYae
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) December 12, 2025
If Democrats like Gavin Newsom gave healthcare to illegals, then how did Trump lie about Democrats giving healthcare to illegals? https://t.co/mQ7lUuk15X
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 11, 2025
Oh Ezra – does your insufferable, self-important self understand that you just said Trump lied about Democrats giving healthcare to illegals, only to play a clip of Newsom LITERALLY TELLING YOU HE DID EXACTLY THAT.
What an absolute clown. And we’re not talking about Newsom here https://t.co/Wcw9RgOIpv
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) December 12, 2025
Greg Gutfeld commented on Twitter:
how someone puts those first 2 sentences together and not realize their own idiocy: https://t.co/Nz60KE2kSu
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) December 12, 2025
Gutfeld also spoke about this during The Five on Friday. Watch:
NEW: Fox’s @greggutfeld: “I love this tweet from @ezraklein. The first two sentences: ‘Trump often lies about Democrats giving healthcare to undocumented immigrants. In California, Newsom actually did it.’”
“So wait. He often lies but Newsom did what Trump said he did. It’s such… pic.twitter.com/wOIO16Y6Kz
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) December 12, 2025
It’s so typical from Democrats. It’s not happening, and yet it’s good that it is actually happening.
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