When Governor Gavin Newsom isn't literally setting his state on fire, it's good to know that he's still doing so figuratively.
Today, TMZ has reported that Paramount, after extended legal battles and being vilified by California's leftist elites, is finally saying sayonara to the Golden State.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Paramount to leave California, according to the L.A. Mayor's office and the California Attorney General's office.
— TMZ (@TMZ) September 16, 2026
What we know: https://t.co/X3Qv5CAVDL pic.twitter.com/1vWZS5AXVb
According to TMZ, the announcement was supposed to be made yesterday, but it was delayed. However, both the Los Angeles Mayor's office and the state AG's office confirmed that the decision to leave has been made. It comes after months of negotiations with California's AG Rob Bonta, who is trying to block the Warner Brothers merger.
David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount, has threatened to move the studio to Texas, Tennessee or Georgia if the Cali A.G. didn't back off and settle.
Ellison threatened to leave California if a settlement wasn't reached by October 1st. Based on conversations in both the Mayor's and Attorney General's offices ... it sounds like no deal is possible.
If Paramount pulls the trigger, it will be a devastating 1-2 punch for Hollywood. "American Idol" is leaving Hollywood for Atlanta. Many other productions have also left Hollywood over the last few years. Fact is ... if Hollywood isn't dead, it's dying.
Paramount did not respond to TMZ's request for comment, but Deadline confirmed the reporting that the announcement of the departure is imminent.
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And no one is even pretending to be shocked.
I tried to warn you. LA is getting absolutely decimated by the insane communist wackos running California. Bob Bonta’s jihad against Paramount is a death blow. What a corrupt piece of s***. https://t.co/gbad5h2K0E
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 16, 2026
The corruption in LA and California is not limited to Bonta and goes much higher and deeper than his office.
Decline is a choice. Businesses are fleeing California in droves. Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris are responsible. Failed leadership for years. https://t.co/oGFOOZG2Gz
— Link Lauren (@itslinklauren) September 16, 2026
It's not surprising that many businesses have decided enough is enough.
As TMZ noted, however, this will be a gigantic blow to the state's economy.
Democrats' bad policies and pure incompetence continue to push businesses out of state. pic.twitter.com/sPHm32blay
— WhatDidYouSay (@NoFilterMeSorry) September 16, 2026
Well done, @GavinNewsom, you and your Democrat Socialist Party supermajority are doing an incredible job of driving major employers and taxpayers out of California. https://t.co/6GqE84Bwdd
— Tom Lyttleton (@tom_lyttleton) September 16, 2026
We can't wait to see how Newsom's "Press Office" account tries to spin this one. For the moment, Izzy Gardon seems busy trying to blame the state's $8 gas prices on Trump and also celebrating the governor banning AI toys.
Governor Newsom has BANNED toys containing AI chatbots. pic.twitter.com/sTF5Zba7L5
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) September 16, 2026
LOL.
It's good to know that Newsom has his priorities straight — appeasing and bending over to China being at the top of that list.
California f***ed around, and now they're finding out. This is the beginning of the breakup of Hollywood. https://t.co/wNX034Y59p
— The Critical Drinker (@TheCriticalDri2) September 16, 2026
And all to appease vile antisemites like Mark Ruffalo.
Yes indeed. pic.twitter.com/adiiYZ7S7k
— DogTownUSA (@DogTown702) September 16, 2026
Another big win for Newsom https://t.co/aCAcbUcEwh
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 16, 2026
Newsom can put this one on his long list of accomplishments, right up there with refusing to prepare for or fight wildfires, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on a bridge for butterflies, and enabling the sex trafficking of minors.
OOF. No wonder they call California the U-Haul state. Everything Newsom, Bonta, and Bass touch turns to s***. I didn’t think it was possible to screw this much up. And yet here we are. https://t.co/G2khbFrQNQ
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) September 16, 2026
Newsom needs another poop map, one that can chart all of the damage his policies have done to the state and the rapidly decreasing number of Americans who still live there.
If only we could’ve seen this coming pic.twitter.com/iP0BQaufgL
— VyseFX (@XVyse2) September 16, 2026
Thank Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom for making it impossible to do business in this state! https://t.co/dC6xRQiORy
— CorpoScum (@CorpoScum) September 16, 2026
All business will leave Newsoms California!@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor pic.twitter.com/hIPzaJ3yZh
— ULTRA AMERICAN MAN - NO MORE LIES! (@EMGENT_007) September 16, 2026
It can only be a matter of time before Newsom tries to impose exit taxes to force businesses and residents to stay put.
https://t.co/Ic5BKKg9TD pic.twitter.com/eBAovlY8F0
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 16, 2026
Congratulations to California Democrats on destroying Hollywood and the entertainment industry because they’d rather lose billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs than let someone who’s spoken to Donald Trump run a major studio https://t.co/bpaVXVb3yq
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) September 16, 2026
Newsom doesn't care. Neither do Bass or Bonta. Neither do the leftist elites in Hollywood.
Only their TDS matters to them.
To be fair, you helped them do this pic.twitter.com/bX05DXNuSx
— Right Handed Power (@righthandedpwr) September 16, 2026
At this rate, it won't be long before California is that smoking pile of ash.
We mostly mean this metaphorically but, as we noted above, in Newsom's case, he might just do it literally as well.
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