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Foul Katie Porter makes her case to be Newsom’s successor: ‘F**k Trump’

February 23, 2026 | | Print Article

A former lawmaker with aspirations of failing upward only further tarnished her foul-mouthed reputation, summing up her campaign message with a two-word stunt aimed at the president.

Months before 90-year-old California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) had passed away, and ahead of any statement about retirement plans, then-Rep. Katie Porter (D) had announced her plan to run for her seat. Now, as even more evidence surfaced about the type of person she is — particularly with her own staff — the now-gubernatorial hopeful’s pitch to her own party was boiled down to a message on a handheld whiteboard that read, “F*ck Trump.”

Saturday at the California Democratic Convention, the failed Senate candidate seeking to be California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) successor in Sacramento sought audience participation after pulling out the whiteboard and revealing to the audience her cursing out President Donald Trump.

“Yeah, that’s right. F*ck Trump,” insisted Porter, who contended, “Together, we’re going to kick Trump’s a** in November. I’ll stand up to Trump and his cronies, just like I did in Congress. With or without my whiteboard. But this election is about more than defeating Trump.”

“I’m running for governor because I’m willing and ready to get sh*t done,” she’d argued. “We have never had a governor in high heels. I think it’s about damn time.”

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While her campaign seemed geared toward surpassing Newsom as the greatest moving company marketer in the once-Golden State via taxpayer-funded state college tuition, a single-payer healthcare system, and the elimination of state income tax only for those making less than $100,000 per year, it was her potty mouth and vile attitude that garnered the most attention on social media.

After the notoriously nasty Democrat, said to have fired a staffer after alleging the employee gave her COVID, failed in her Senate bid and set her sights higher, a resurfaced video from 2021 showcased Porter’s behavior toward her own team as she snapped at a staffer during an online conversation with then-Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, “Get out of my f*cking shot!”

“[I]t’s desperately sad that this woman has become such an avatar of the democratic party, but she has,” wrote one social media user who described the interaction with the audience as one that would be had with “kindergarteners in her awful, sing-songy child-scold voice and cadence while giving vent to the only unifier still holding the ratbag of team donkey together: hatred of trump.”

“[S]he is at once vulgar and vapid, a sort of demented and deranged cartoon of politics that reaches past mere negative campaigning and deep into self indictment as a bereft and barren movement seeking nothing, no principle, no real aim outside of its own self-perpetuation,” the account continued before later adding, “the shrillery of the collapsing echo chamber grows ever more intense and ever less meaningful.”

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The crowded jungle primary in California wasn’t biting on it either, as numerous polls found Porter trailing in fourth place with sub-10% support behind and equally struggling California Rep. Eric Swalwell (D). The left faced stiff competition from Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) and commentator Steve Hilton (R), who held two of the top three spots in recent polling.

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