<p>Katie Couric made history when she became the first woman to solo-host a primetime news program — The CBS Evening News — but now she&#8217;s making news by asking Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on her podcast whether he&#8217;s too pretty for national politics.</p>
<p>Couric hosted the governor on a recent episode of her &#8220;Next Question&#8221; podcast, and while she did ask him about a number of more serious policy positions, she also asked whether he was too handsome to be taken seriously.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Couric: Do you have a Zoolander problem? Are you just ridiculously good looking as Vogue said? What do you do about that?</p>
<p>Newsom: You don’t do anything about it…It’s just who I am.</p>
<p>Good. Lord. <a href="https://t.co/aFmvpDLlaa">pic.twitter.com/aFmvpDLlaa</a></p>
<p>— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/2029623877865800188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Do you have a &#8216;Zoolander&#8217; problem?&#8221; Couric asked, laughing.</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh, Jesus,&#8221; Newsom laughed. &#8220;&#8216;Zoolander.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Are you just ridiculously good-looking as <em>Vogue</em> said? No, seriously, what do you do about that?&#8221; Couric asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;You don’t do anything about it,&#8221; Newsom replied. &#8220;Because if you&#8217;re going to do something about it then you&#8217;re bullsh*tting people. You know what? I am who I am. It&#8217;s fine. You don&#8217;t have to like me. Or maybe you like a slick person, I don&#8217;t know. Whatever, it&#8217;s okay. If I start showing up —&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I brought that up because you talked about being authentic,&#8221; Couric interrupted. &#8220;And I think it sometimes works against you.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, it’s just who I am. It&#8217;s just who I am,&#8221; Newsom repeated.</p>
<p>Couric capitalized on that moment to tease the interview, cutting it into the introduction for the podcast episode. Her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E-mlna_XVk&amp;t=1s">YouTube</a> caption began, &#8220;California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent his career outrunning a public image that reduces him to a caricature—slick, ambitious, and impossibly polished.&#8221;</p>
<p>Couric&#8217;s line of questioning follows a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vogue-puff-piece-on-gavin-newsom-delivers-overdose-of-cringe">fawning profile</a> from Vogue&#8217;s Spring 2026 issue that opened with the following statement: &#8220;Let’s get this out of the way: He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address.&#8221;</p>
<p>The piece, authored by Maya Singer, continued, &#8220;It must drive Trump nuts. Newsom: lithe, ardent, energetic, a glimmer of optimism in his eye; Kennedy-esque. Add to that his stunning wife and four adorable kids, and the executive strut of a self-made millionaire who has spent the past seven years at the helm of a state big, complex, and rich enough to be a nation of its own.&#8221;</p>
<p>Newsom, who term-limits out at the end of this year as California governor, is widely expected to run for president in 2028.</p>

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