'Dangerous and deranged': Newsom answers Trump's Iran remark on West Coast Wrap
A day after the president's midterm rally comment, KTVU's segment on the reaction drew a comment section far busier than anything the station usually sees.
KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 57,912 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (5,670).
Outrage over Trump's remarks that Iran could 'take out' California cities | West Coast Wrap
Gavin Newsom did not reach for soft words. According to KTVU FOX 2's latest West Coast Wrap, the California governor called President Trump's suggestion that Iran could "take out" California cities, Los Angeles and San Diego among them, "dangerous and deranged." He also turned to prominent members of the Republican party and asked where their outrage was.
The remark came at a midterm rally. One day later the president had no comment, the description says, and that silence frames the segment. It pulls together the condemnation from political leaders rather than replaying the rally itself.
This is the same series that, a few days earlier, was warning about triple-digit heat ahead of a 49ers home game. This time it went well past its usual reach. The wrap passed nearly 60,000 views in its first day, while the channel as a whole is running well below its normal daily pace. The station's other stories that day, an arrest in the killing of a security guard at the Warfield Theatre and a small plane crash in a Petaluma field, drew only a fraction of that.
The comments came in about thirty times faster than on a usual first day for one of KTVU's longer videos. Much of the conversation circles back to the rally: many viewers mention the crowd behind the president cheering the line, others push back on the idea that it was meant as a joke, and some point out how much of the country's military presence sits in San Diego. A long thread simply repeats Newsom's own question about where the outrage is.
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- Channel
- KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco
- Subscribers
- 388,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,014,934
- Channel views, pace per day
- 124,381 (on a normal day: 450,508)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 59,786 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 58,072
The numbers
One West Coast segment outran the rest of the station's day by a wide margin.
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San Diego, one of the cities named in the remark, sits just across the border from which Mexican city?
Tijuana lies directly south of San Diego, and the two form one of the busiest border crossings in the world.
