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California Gov. Gavin Newsom jetted to Switzerland for the World Financial Discussion board and used the worldwide stage to take goal on the Trump administration, a transfer that shortly spawned a string of viral moments and mockery.
Trump administration officers and the president himself converged on Davos, Switzerland, this week to satisfy with world authorities and enterprise leaders to debate the economic system at massive, and as President Donald Trump upped the ante on pressuring European leaders to ink a deal for the U.S. to amass Greenland.
Trump dominated headlines as international dignitaries met with the deal-maker-in-chief on the high-profile annual discussion board, with Newsom concurrently working to counter his longtime political foe.
Fox Information Digital took a glance again at Newsom’s prime moments that earned him thousands and thousands of views on social media as Trump supporters and others lambasted the governor for his political stunts and commentary.
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Warns international leaders in opposition to kowtowing to Trump in weird ‘kneepads’ meltdown
Shortly after arriving to Switzerland, Newsom informed the media from the sidelines of the annual assembly that he “ought to have introduced a bunch of kneepads for all of the world leaders” interacting with Trump, calling them “pathetic” as he reprimanded that they “have a spine” in opposition to the White Home.
He additionally in contrast Trump to a t.rex on the prowl to both mate or eat.
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“That is diplomacy with Donald Trump. He is a T.rex. You mate with him, or he devours you, one or the opposite. The Europeans might be (devoured) in the event that they proceed down this path and course of. They should stand tall, stand agency, stand united,” Newsom stated on Tuesday.
“Look, a 12 months in the past we should always have been having this dialog, and so they did not. And now you are paying the value — precisely what anyone goal observer would have anticipated we would be the place we’re in the present day.”
Video of his remarks shortly unfold throughout social media, producing thousands and thousands of views as MAGA supporters scratched their heads over the remarks or mocked Newsom for what critics referred to as an “odd” or “vivid” or “weird MELTDOWN” on-line.
Commentator Stephen A. Smith slammed Newsom for taking pictures at Trump whereas on international soil, arguing the “America first” mentality ought to transcend home political variations whereas on a world stage.
“I’ve no drawback with Gavin Newsom being candid and open about his emotions about our president on United States soil. To go over to a different nation, Switzerland, to go over there and to be within the presence of different European leaders, talking in opposition to the President of the US — I am not down with that,” Smith stated on his podcast, Fox Digital beforehand reported.
Gov. Gavin Newsom walked again his workplace’s feedback slamming ICE brokers throughout a podcast interview. (Amy Sussman/Getty Photographs)
Alex Soros picture blowback
Newsom acquired widespread backlash from conservatives on-line after left-wing billionaire donor Alex Soros posted a photograph of the pair to social media on Tuesday.
“So glad he’s right here calling out world leaders for believing appeasement works in relation to Trump,” Soros captioned the picture of the pair. “It doesn’t. It solely emboldens him to develop into extra chaotic and harmful. World leaders may take a web page out of Newsom’s guide. It’s time to face tall, stand agency, and stand united — earlier than it’s too late.”
The picture sparked mockery and condemnation from Trump officers and social media commenters, together with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent quipping that Newsom is like “Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Seashore Ken.”
He is right here this week together with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros, and Davos is the proper place for a person who, when everybody else was on lockdown, when he was having folks arrested for going to church, he was having $1,000 an evening meals on the French Laundry,” Bessent continued throughout a Wednesday press convention.
“Gavin Newscum auditioning to be Alex Soros’ subsequent sugar child is a waste of time – all the cash on the planet couldn’t make Newscum’s pitiful presidential goals come true,” White Home spokeswoman Taylor Rogers stated.
“Somebody confiscate Alex Soros’ Instagram account,” Tim Miller, “Bulwark Podcast” host and MSNBC analyst wrote in response to Newsom and Soros exhibiting off their friendship in Davos.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is attending the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland. President Donald Trump can also be anticipated the high-profile financial assembly. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
Newsom claims White Home prevented him from holding Davos fireplace chat
Newsom took to X on Wednesday and claimed he was barred from talking at an occasion in Davos, together with his workplace pinning blame on the White Home.
“Underneath strain from the White Home and State Division, USA Home (a church performing because the official U.S. pavilion) is now denying entry to @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom to talk with media after Fortune — the official media companion — invited him to talk,” Newsom’s press workplace stated on Wednesday.
Newsom was invited to talk at USA Home in Davos, which served because the U.S.’ essential hub on the World Financial Discussion board and targeted on celebrating America’s upcoming 250th anniversary as a nation, however was denied entry.
“California was simply denied on the USA Home. Final we checked, California is a part of USA,” Newsom posted on X.
The White Home weighed in shortly after, taking goal on the governor for spending time in Europe and never at dwelling in California. Newsom has lengthy been considered as a possible 2028 Democratic candidate for the White Home.
“Nobody in Davos is aware of who third-rate governor Newscum is or why he’s frolicking round Switzerland as an alternative of fixing the various issues he created in California,” White Home spokeswoman Anna Kelly informed Fox Information of the remarks.
California Governor Gavin Newsom listens to President Donald Trump handle the World Financial Discussion board within the Davos Congress Middle on Jan. 21, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. ( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
Newsom caught on digicam reacting to Trump’s speech
The California governor had yet one more viral second on Wednesday when he attended Trump’s speech to the discussion board and was noticed smirking.
Trump referred to as Newsom out by identify amid his remarks on Wednesday, which overwhelmingly targeted on his administration’s first-year wins and heightened requires the U.S. to amass Greenland.
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“We’ll assist the folks in California. We wish to don’t have any crime,” Trump stated throughout his handle. “I do know Gavin was right here. I used to get alongside so nice with Gavin after I was president. Gavin’s a very good man, and we’ll. If he wanted it, I might do it in a heartbeat. I would like to see. We did assist them quite a bit in Los Angeles, quite a bit with the early, early in my time period once they had some issues. However we’d like to do it.”
Newsom was noticed in video footage and images standing on the sidelines of the speech whereas listening to Trump, together with showing to smirk in the course of the president’s handle.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a knee protector on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
Governor hows off Trump-styled kneepads
After claiming that he ought to have introduced kneepads for world leaders as they work together with Trump, Newsom whipped out a pair of what he referred to as “Trump signature sequence kneepads” throughout a World Financial Discussion board session moderated by Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor.
“It isn’t what we must be doing. However you have to level out the absurdity,” Newsom stated of the political prop.
The governor stated the Trump administration has heightened its private assaults in opposition to him, pointing to Bessent’s “Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Seashore Ken” comment as proof.
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“We’re deeply of their head. I believe the affordability agenda seems to be I am dwelling rent-free within the Trump administration’s head,” he stated of the Trump administration.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Newsom’s workplace on Friday concerning his sequence of viral moments however didn’t instantly obtain a reply.
Fox Information Digital’s Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.
