Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has said that President Donald Trump's firing of Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi was “no surprise” and part of a wider “war on all women.” In an Instagram video posted on Saturday, she described the dismissals as a predictable pattern under Trump's administration.
Newsom, who serves as California's “first partner,” stated that the two women were brought in and “packaged Mar-a-Lago style” but had no real power or job security. She argued that women who align themselves with Trump's agenda are ultimately disposable. “When you align yourself with a leader who has publicly devalued women, degraded them, and been found liable of abusing women, you're going to be the first to go,” she said.
Bondi was fired as Attorney General last week amid bipartisan outrage over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and the release of related files. Noem was ousted as Homeland Security Secretary in March after claiming Trump had approved a deportation campaign that the president denied authorising. Both were the first Cabinet members to be dismissed in Trump's second term.
The White House defended the president's record, pointing to his remarks during a Women's History Month event where he noted that his Cabinet includes more women than any previous Republican administration. According to the Center for American Women and Politics, one-third of Trump's original Cabinet and Cabinet-level appointments were women.
Newsom concluded that there is a “war on all women” regardless of political affiliation, adding that “no woman is safe in Trump's Republican Party unless she has enough wealth or the ability to buy her own job security and safety.”
