Jennifer Seibel Newsom, wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, criticized President Donald Trump for firing his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi, categorizing the dismissals as part of a wider “war on all women.”
Seibel Newsom said: “Women are brought in, packaged Mar-a-Lago style, and lifted up as long as they commit to wholeheartedly serve the interests of the patriarch at the top.”
[NOTE: Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican Trump-supporter-turned-detractor, has also criticized a MAGA system that makes no room for people unwilling to exclusively serve the interests of the “patriarch at the top,” though Greene’s criticism is not gender-based like Seibel Newsom’s.]
Numerous Fox News personalities objected to the charge that the Trump administration denigrated women, offering — see below — Susie Wiles’ position as White House Chief of Staff as evidence that Trump, who has long been accused of misogyny by his detractors, empowers women. (Trump’s often rude treatment of female reporters, much documented, contributes to this narrative, though his defenders insist such treatment is justified.)
Casone: If President Trump’s got a problem with women, why is Susie Wiles his chief of staff? pic.twitter.com/ZEpxSn9VFc
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 6, 2026
Fox News star Harris Faulkner responded to Seibel Newsom’s critique of the administration’s treatment of women by saying she didn’t “understand it.” Faulkner used the critique as a prompt to criticize Gov. Newsom’s position as an opponent of the American war in Iran.
[NOTE: Gov. Newsom has called Trump’s Iran attacks “unjustified” and a “manufactured crisis,” calling the President “reckless” and claiming the attacks go against America’s interests economically and militarily.]
Faulkner claimed that Iranians in America support Trump’s actions, even his threats to bomb “back to the stone ages [sic]” the country where their relatives still live. Faulkner asserted that Newsom, who is not running for re-election as governor, has a “problem” because of Iranian diaspora support in California, a community she says is “thrilled” with Trump’s actions.
“Newsom has got a real problem in that state right now,” Harris said, “because he’s got a lot of Iranian Americans in L.A. who are really thrilled with what the president is doing because their families, their loved ones, some of them are still in Iran and will benefit for [sic] what we are trying to do as a country in our military.”
[NOTE: Harris is referring to a community mostly around Los Angeles described in this World Population Review summary: “California has the highest number of Iranians in the United States, with 210,128 individuals, making up 0.54% of the state’s population.”]
Faulkner: Newsom has got a real problem in that state right now because he’s got a lot of Iranian Americans in L.A. who are really thrilled with what the president is doing because their loved ones are still in Iran and will benefit for what we are trying to do as a country in… pic.twitter.com/kBfmGhXR65
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 6, 2026
On Easter Sunday, President Trump threatened to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran if the country does not open the Strait of Hormuz. He wrote: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” and called the leaders of Iran “crazy.”
Trump’s threat was condemned by numerous observers as describing a “war crime,” with The New York Times headlining a story about Trump’s Easter morning social media rhetoric “Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran.” Attacks on purely civilian infrastructure are outlawed in the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter as well as other international agreements.
[NOTE: According to a report released by Human Rights Activists in Iran, there have been more than 1,443 civilian fatalities — at least 217 of them children — from the start of hostilities on February 28.]