California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) didn’t waste time in pointing out White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s awkward choice of words to promote President Donald Trump’s support of psychedelic drugs as treatment for mental illness.

Trump on Saturday signed an executive order directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “expedite their review of certain psychedelics already designated as breakthrough therapy drugs” for conditions including depression and anxiety.

On Monday, Leavitt touted the executive order with a post on X that included a link to a “Fact Sheet” issued by the White House.

“President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness,” she wrote.

True to form, Newsom noted Leavitt’s phrasing left the intended recipient(s) of those treatments open-ended.

“For himself?” he wrote on X, via his press office.

For himself? https://t.co/RFP2ldnhLc

Other public officials, including Bakari Sellers and journalist Aaron Rupar, cheekily shared similar sentiments.

“Thank GOD, he’s getting the help he needs,” wrote Sellers. a Democrat and former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.

Added Rupar: “we’ve noticed and i’m glad he’s getting help.”

At a press conference held Saturday at the Oval Office, Trump said the order was intended “for a lot of people, but it’s for our military in particular.”

“I got a call from a number of people including the great Joe Rogan, and he said we have to do something about this,” he added, before a crowd that included both the podcaster and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

As Newsom and others suggest, however, Trump’s signing of the order comes amid heightened scrutiny of his own mental acuity, particularly as he’s repeatedly criticized Pope Leo XIV and embraced extreme rhetoric with regard to the Iran war.

Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who until recently has been loyal to the president, recently described Trump’s actions as those of “an unhinged super villain from a Marvel comic movie,” and even suggested “we 25th Amendment his ass.”

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