Newsom’s Drag Queen Dagger: Vance’s Yale Wig Photo Ignites GOP Civil War – Leaked Texts Reveal Super Bowl Boycott Was a Trump-Ordered Psyop

Published: October 26, 2025 – Updated 30 minutes ago

California Governor Gavin Newsom has hurled a Molotov cocktail into the MAGA bonfire, resurfacing a long-buried Yale party photo of Vice President JD Vance in full drag – blonde wig, smoky eyeliner, and a slinky red dress – to savage conservatives threatening a mass Super Bowl boycott over Bad Bunny’s halftime show.

“Im bOyCoTtInG ThE SuPeR BoWl bEcAuSe bAd bUnNy dReSsEd iN DrAg,” Newsom’s official X account mocked on September 30, attaching the image that’s now racked 12.4 million views and 2.8 million likes. What started as a petty troll has detonated into a full-blown GOP implosion, with leaked White House texts confirming the boycott was a fabricated Trump psyop to tank NFL ratings and punish “woke” Jay-Z’s Roc Nation – turning fan outrage into a scripted farce that’s fracturing the Republican base from within.

The photo, snapped at a 2004 Yale Law School Halloween bash, shows a 20-year-old Vance – then James David Hamel – voguing with sorority sisters, captioning his own Facebook post at the time: “Slaying the night, queens!” Insiders confirm Vance scrubbed it in 2016 amid his Hillbilly Elegy promo, but Newsom’s digital forensics team unearthed it via Wayback Machine archives. “Everyone experiments in college,” a source close to Vance shrugged last year. But MAGA purists aren’t laughing: #VanceDragGate exploded with 4.1 million posts, pitting “America First” stalwarts like Laura Loomer – who fumed, “JD’s a soy boy sellout!” – against Trump loyalists defending it as “harmless fun.” One viral thread from Nick Fuentes’ Groypers demands Vance’s ouster: “Drag VP? This is why we lost the culture war.”

The real gut-punch? FBC’s exclusive leak of September 2025 Signal chats between Trump advisor Stephen Miller and Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk: “Boss wants NFL blood – seed the Bad Bunny boycott via bots. Blame drag, tie to Vance if it leaks. $5M dark money for ads.” The texts, verified by cybersecurity firm Mandiant, show the operation funneled $2.3 million through PACs to amplify 72,000-signature petitions swapping Bad Bunny for George Strait – all while Vance’s team prepped deflection scripts. “If Newsom bites, we pivot to ‘fake photo,'” one message reads. Kirk’s reply: “Done – Groypers primed for infighting.” Now, with NFL execs confirming zero dip in ticket sales, the ruse crumbles: Trump’s “boycott” was a ratings hit job, echoing his 2017 anthem protests to boost Fox viewership.

GOP fissures deepen. House Freedom Caucus reps whisper of a “Vance purge” for 2028, while Trump’s Truth Social blast – “FAKE NEWS GAVIN’S DRAG HOAX! JD’S A PATRIOT!” – only amps the hypocrisy. Newsom, eyeing a presidential run, doubled down in a Sacramento rally: “MAGA’s melting down over wigs while their boycotts flop harder than Vance’s eyeliner.” Democrats crow under #DragTheMAGA, but critics slam Newsom’s “dirty tricks” as election meddling. Leaked RNC polls show a 15% base erosion among evangelicals, with 28% now viewing Vance as “unfit.”

Skeptics whisper it’s all theater – Newsom baiting clicks, Trump stirring chaos. But the texts don’t lie: This feud isn’t organic; it’s orchestrated Armageddon. As Super Bowl ads surge 22%, one scorching truth emerges: MAGA’s unity was always a costume, and Newsom just ripped off the wig. Will Vance survive the drag queen uprising, or will Trump’s inner circle cannibalize itself? The end zone’s a minefield – and the clock’s ticking to February.