The Collapse of Trump's Fake Alpha Act

Trump has spent years selling himself as the ultimate “Alpha male,” but the whole thing has always been theater—loud bluster, cheap dominance tricks, and playground-bully energy dressed up as leadership. For a while, it worked on people who confuse arrogance with strength.

But now? Newsom is dismantling that performance with precision. By leaning into satire, trolling, and even optics that flip the “Alpha” script back on Trump, he’s exposing just how hollow it all is. The brilliance is that he’s not just fighting Trump’s words—he’s undercutting the very persona that props him up.

Bullies hate being out-bullied, and Trump’s entire strongman shtick crumbles when someone sharper, cooler, and more media-savvy beats him at his own game. Newsom isn’t just seizing the spotlight—he’s rewriting the script, showing that Trump’s “Alpha crown” was nothing more than a plastic prop all along.