President-elect Trump is not thrilled with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aggressive, highly visible campaign to protect California from the Trump White House.

“Governor Gavin Newscum is trying to KILL our nation’s beautiful California,” Trump wrote Friday on his Truth Social account, under the oft-used nickname for the state’s Democratic governor.

Trump’s post — to which Newsom’s office had not provided a response by Friday afternoon — came a day after the governor called a special session of the state Legislature to prepare for potential Republican-led attacks on abortion rights , of environmental protection and disaster financing in a liberal state.

Trump wrote that Newsom is “using the term ‘Trump-Proof’ as a way to shut down all the BIG things that can be done to ‘Make California Great Again,’ but we just won the election in a landslide.”

Newsom’s preemptive strike signals a return to the hostile relationship between Democratic-controlled California and the Trump administration.

The governor’s statement for the largely symbolic special session says his administration anticipates Trump may seek to limit access to abortion drugs, pursue a national abortion ban, dismantle environmental protections, repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and withhold federal funding for disaster response. among other promises he made during the campaign.

Newsom is asking lawmakers to provide additional funding to the California Department of Justice and other agencies in his administration to immediately file lawsuits and defend against litigation from the Trump administration.

The governor’s advisers have said the increases for the state’s legal defense will be paid for with income tax revenues that exceeded projections in the current fiscal year, but the amount of funding will be determined in negotiations at the state Capitol. The special session is scheduled to begin on December 2.

The Truth president-elect slammed the “INSANE POLICY DECISIONS” of California’s Democratic leaders, blaming them for people fleeing the expensive state. (State data show that last year, Calif the population increased up 0.17% after three years of losses.)

“They are making it impossible to build a reasonably priced car, the uncontrolled and unbalanced homelessness catastrophe, and the cost of EVERYTHING, especially ‘groceries’, IS OUT OF CONTROL,” Trump wrote.

Trump also criticized the “diversion of MILLIONS OF GALLONS A DAY OF WATER FROM THE NORTH INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN instead of using it, free of charge, for the cities, towns and farms spread across California.”

Speaking at his Rancho Palos Verdes golf club in September, Trump indicated he would revive it fight in the first term with California leaders over water allocations and environmental laws designed to protect endangered fish such as the small delta smelt.

He said it would “return water to the hills where you have all the dead forests, where the forests are so fragile” to prevent wildfires. And he threatened that withholds federal firefighting aid for California, unless “Newscum” agreed to “sign those documents” — an apparent reference to water policy, though he did not specify which documents.

In an interview days before the election, the governor credited Trump with the nickname “Newscum” as a victory.

“We’re clearly in his head, and that’s a good thing, from my perspective,” Newsom said. “It means we’re doing the right thing.”

Although Trump and Newsom have battled on social media, in the press and in court during the president-elect’s first term, their relationship has not always been strained. The governor has publicly praised Trump several times for providing federal aid to the California wildfires. And Trump also used a clip of Newsom praising him for sending COVID-19 testing swabs to California in an ad during his 2020 presidential campaign.

The pair maintained a cordial relationship behind the scenes, but it appears to have ended.

Trump’s Friday social media post also included a promise to require voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote.

This fall, Newsom signed a law which prohibits local governments from imposition voter identification requirements.