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Why Gavin Newsom demands the world’s elites oppose America

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21.01.2026

Gavin Newsom sure loves to talk a big game. But courage is something to show, not tell.

His trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is the latest example of the governor making a fool of himself by not knowing the difference.

Davos is Newsom’s favorite kind of place, a swanky gathering where he can run his mouth about anything and everything but how he governs California.

So, he was thrilled to be asked by a reporter what he would tell Europeans about Donald Trump’s blustering campaign to squeeze Greenland out of Denmark.

Newsom got on his high horse: “It’s time to buck up, it’s time to get serious and stop being complicit. It’s time to stand tall and firm and have a backbone. I can’t take this complicity, people rolling over. I should have brought a bunch of kneepads for all the world leaders. I mean, handing out crowns, handing out Nobel Prizes — it’s just pathetic.”

Of course, Newsom shared this with his followers on X, adding, “Get off your knees and grow a spine.”

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