California Gov. Gavin Newsom trolled Fox News while touting the state's latest job growth numbers on Saturday.
"Fox News will hate this: Last month, California created 43,700 jobs — making up 1 in 6 of the nation's jobs," the two-term Democrat wrote on social media.
Newsom also included a screenshot of a Mercury News story with the headline, "Job boom returns to Bay Area and California as hiring surges in May."
The report cited figures from the state Employment Development Department that showed 7,000 new jobs created in the nine-county Bay Area despite massive tech industry layoffs, and said they help the state reach a record 18 million-plus nonfarm payroll jobs.
A Fox News spokesperson didn't immediately return a request for comment.
But when Newsom did something similar earlier this month, writing online that Fox News "definitely" wouldn't report that California was again home to the most Fortune 500 companies of any state, several network hosts bashed him on its top-rated show, "The Five."
Jesse Watters called Newsom "Mr. Braggadocious" and said he was "stepping on a rake" because thieves in Los Angeles were reportedly stealing fire hydrants to sell as scrap metal and "it's so dangerous in Oakland, construction workers are quitting and refusing to finish its pothole-paving job."
Greg Gutfeld referred to Newsom as "greasy Gav" and portrayed him as out of touch with the state's crime, traffic and homelessness problems, and Dana Perino said, "The guy can't read a room at all."
Perino noted that the Rubio's Coastal Grill restaurant chain had closed 48 California locations in the wake of a state law that in April raised the minimum wage for fast food workers from $16 to $20 an hour.
