Sean Hannity’s attempted slam of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was irony defined for many of the Fox News host’s critics.

On Wednesday, Hannity devoted several minutes of his prime-time show to attacking Newsom, who has recently taken to trolling Donald Trump on social media by mimicking the president’s bombastic and combative tone.

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Top Trump ally Hannity denounced Newsom, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, as a “radical” whose policies had wrecked California and dismissed his Trump impersonations as “embarrassing.”

Then came the line that went viral: “I have a point. Results matter. A new performative, confrontational style. Maybe it wins you points with the loony, radical base in your party. But America is not going to vote for that record.”

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Critics pounced on the remark, arguing it sounded more like a description of Trump — and Hannity himself — than of the governor.
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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