Nicki Minaj Just Torched Gavin Newsom’s Racist Atlanta Moment With One Devastating Observation

Joe Biden told a Black radio host "you ain't Black" if you don't vote Democrat.

Gavin Newsom just one-upped him.

The California governor – the man being groomed as the Democrat Party's 2028 savior – said something Sunday night in Atlanta that has now been viewed 35 million times, and what he revealed about how Democrats see Black voters is something you need to see for yourself.

Newsom's 960 SAT Moment That Went Viral in Atlanta

Newsom was at the Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta, seated alongside Mayor Andre Dickens, ostensibly promoting his new memoir but transparently running an early presidential campaign through the South.

When Dickens asked what he hoped readers would take from his book, Newsom leaned in with what he clearly thought was a charming moment of vulnerability.

"I'm not trying to impress you," Newsom told Dickens and the audience. "I'm just trying to impress upon you, I'm like you. I'm no better than you. I'm a 960 SAT guy."

Then he kept going.

"You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in."

Read that again.

The governor of the largest state in America – a man worth $30 million who grew up connected to the Getty family fortune, was bankrolled by Gordon Getty at age 24 to open his first wine shop, and whose father was appointed a state appellate judge by Jerry Brown – chose low SAT scores and the inability to read as his bridge to a room full of voters in Georgia.

The average SAT score for Black test-takers is 907 out of 1600, according to 2024 College Board data. The national average is 1024. Newsom scored 960 and apparently decided that made him one of them.

Nicki Minaj Called Newsom Racist and Explained Exactly Why

Nicki Minaj posted a response on X that cut straight to the bone.

"His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can't read," she wrote.

Then she pointed to something even more damning than the words themselves – his delivery. He slowed his speech down and talked in short, choppy fragments, as if the audience needed extra time to process simple sentences.

Watch the clip with that in mind. Then watch any Newsom press conference from the last six months. There is a difference.

Conservative researcher and commentator DataRepublican put it plainly: “The rare double self-own.”

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If any Republican uttered such moronic things, their political careers would be over.

Newsom's own spokesperson called it "MAGA-manufactured outrage" and claimed the governor had told the same story to many audiences, including conservative ones – which is true, and also kind of the point. He didn't tell Charlie Kirk he was "just like him" because of a bad SAT score. He saved that for Atlanta.

Gavin Newsom and the Democrat Tradition of Racist Pandering to Black Voters

This isn't new. This is who the Democrat Party is.

Hillary Clinton went to a Black church in Selma in 2007 and adopted a fake Southern preacher accent to deliver "I ain't no ways tired." Biden told Charlamagne tha God "if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, you ain't Black." Kamala Harris told a Black radio audience she smoked weed in college and listened to Snoop and Tupac – artists who weren't even popular until after she graduated.

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Every single time, the same instinct kicks in: Democrats look at a Black audience and ask themselves what condescending stereotype they can perform.

Black voters have been telling Democrats this for years. A New York Times focus group of Black men was direct: "It's the pandering to the Black race, thinking that we are looking for a handout and feeling sorry for us, when we're capable and culpable. That's not a respectful tone. It's insulting, actually."

And they've been voting accordingly. Democrats lost ground with Black voters in every presidential cycle from 2012 to 2024 – an 11-point swing nationally, and 16 points among Black men, according to Catalist's post-2024 analysis. Black voters aren't leaving because Republicans got popular. They're leaving because they're tired of being talked down to by wealthy white Democrats who think poverty and low test scores are the price of admission to their community.

Why This Viral Clip Could End Gavin Newsom's 2028 Presidential Run

Newsom has the authenticity problem in reverse: he's so wealthy and so polished that he can't be himself with any audience, so he invents a fake version every time.

Donald Trump was worth billions and never pretended otherwise. That authenticity – even when abrasive – is what made him unbeatable. You knew exactly who you were getting.

Newsom is pretending to be a guy who can't read. To a Georgia audience. While promoting a book he wrote. That was sitting on the table next to him the entire time.

AOC torched her own 2028 campaign in Munich two weeks ago, stumbling on Taiwan and getting hammered by Trump for it. Now Newsom has handed the internet a 35-million-view clip that writes itself into a campaign ad the moment he formally declares.

The Democrat Party's two top 2028 contenders imploded in the same month. And the man who has to be most pleased about all of this is the one already living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – who has spent years telling people exactly who he is, and keeps getting proven right.

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Sources:

• Andrew Mark Miller, "Newsom ripped over 'racist' viral clip telling Black mayor 'I'm like you' before touting poor SAT score," Fox News, February 23, 2026.
• John Nolte, "Newsom Tells Black Audience 'I'm Like You…960 SAT…I Cannot Read a Speech,'" Breitbart, February 23, 2026.
• "Gavin Newsom Told a Predominantly Black Crowd He's 'Just Like Them' Because He 'Can't Read,'" Yahoo News, February 23, 2026.
• "Focus group of Black men slam the Democratic Party's messaging, comparing it to 'pandering,'" Fox News, July 16, 2024.
• "Buttigieg, Newsom, AOC top three in new 2028 poll in key presidential primary state," Fox News, February 19, 2026.