He got away with these things because he is a rich, white, male who was hyped up as being successful on a TV show back in the 2000s. Kamala Harris literally worked at a McDonald's as a summer job but they derided, mocked, and called her a liar. If Barack Obama or Kamala Harris had put on a hat and vest and did a McDonald's drive thru stunt Republicans and the media would call them Michael Dukakis and laugh at it.
I used to be 100% against making fun of and chiding people with personal insults, but the facts are that they work. I was 100% opposed to the tactics Newsome used in his press conference, but it is effective I think. Democrats, like what Newsome did last night, need to fight back harder and get more down in the mud. Michelle Obama's old adage of "When they go low, we go high" is dated and doesn't work in today's politics. We need more of what Newsome did last night from Democratic leaders. And if someone insults the fact that Trump is the size of a blimp in a parade, ok.