A year after Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. went public with their romance, Gavin Newsom was just as bewildered. In March 2019, he was still trying to understand how he found himself indirectly linked to the Trumps. As governor of one of the country’s most powerful states, Newsom deals with the president frequently. Donald Trump was no different. Speaking with PROFILE by BuzzFeed News, Newsom admitted that his ex-wife’s relationship with the then-president’s son had come up.
Newsom’s response gave insight into how he felt about it. “We may have had a private moment on that conversation, which in and of itself, makes life just interesting,” he laughed, looking slightly in disbelief. When Ben Smith asked him to elaborate, Newsom doubled down. “Life is interesting,” he repeated. The convo he had with Trump about his ex and his son, as uncomfortable as it might have been, likely didn’t compare to a chat he had with the man himself.
A few months earlier, Guilfoyle called Trump Jr. to the phone when she was talking to Newsom. She had been joking about sending her new beau to California to derail Newsom’s campaign when the idea struck her. She thought it would be funny. The awkward exchange centered around hair products. “Gav’s hair is slicked back, and Don’s hair is slicked back,” she told The Washington Post. Newsom and Guilfoyle were still on good terms then, but that wouldn’t last much longer.
