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Newsom slams world leaders for Trump response at elite Davos summit: ‘I should have brought a bunch of kneepads’
The New York Post ^ | 01/20/2026 | Zain Khan

Posted on 01/20/2026 8:41:14 AM PST by thegagline

Gov. Gavin Newsom told world leaders to “stand up” to President Donald Trump and show “backbone” during the Democrat’s visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“It’s time to buck up, it’s time to get serious and stop being complicit,” Newsom told a reporter when asked if he had any message for Europeans concerned about the White House’s comments on acquiring Greenland.

“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,” Newsom said. “I hope people understand how pathetic they look on the world stage. From an American perspective, it’s embarrassing.” *** Newsom argued that leaders need to stop appeasing the president and start standing up to him, warning that Trump was “playing folks for fools.”

“He’s a T-rex. You meet with him or he devours you — one or the other,” the governor said. ***

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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Dear Pam Bondi:

Gavin Newsom and the Logan Act.

Stop posturing and do your job or get out of the way.

1 posted on 01/20/2026 8:41:14 AM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Well, newscum would know all about kneepads.


2 posted on 01/20/2026 8:43:31 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: thegagline

Newsome would be the one to have lots of kneepads at the ready.


3 posted on 01/20/2026 8:44:05 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: thegagline

“I should’ve brought a bunch of knee pads” which I’m sure he has them. See Tampon Timmy for Maxi Pads.


4 posted on 01/20/2026 8:45:00 AM PST by albie
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To: thegagline

I can tell you, the libs will start a civil war here and then enlist all our enemies to destroy us when they lose.


5 posted on 01/20/2026 8:45:30 AM PST by struggle
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To: albie

“””“I should’ve brought a bunch of knee pads” which I’m sure he has them. See Tampon Timmy for Maxi Pads.”””

I’m sure he could get a bunch from Kamala.


6 posted on 01/20/2026 8:48:57 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: thegagline

One excellent thing about Trump - he is making all the hidden, Davos/EU 5th columnist agents reveal themselves.


7 posted on 01/20/2026 8:49:19 AM PST by PGR88
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To: thegagline

“Gavin Newsom and the Logan Act.”

My thoughts exactly. Whether one agrees with specific Trump statements is irrelevant. There will always be statements by Presidents with which one disagrees. These disagreements belong at home not abroad.


8 posted on 01/20/2026 8:50:08 AM PST by plain talk
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To: thegagline

That is so pathetic. That little weasel is trying hard to pretend he’s s real leader like President Trump, the very man he is excoriating. That is the sign of a very weak, insecure man.


9 posted on 01/20/2026 8:51:53 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Sirius Lee

Well, newscum would know all about kneepads.

He’s used them on the Getty oil family all his life. Without his connection to the Getty oil family, he’d been a tour bus driver.

Getty oil family funded his business and every step of his political career.

And his “me too” wife must be familiar with knee pads too. She claimed to have had sex with Harvey Weinstein on more than one occasion to further her acting career. That tells you just how far the Newsoms will go to further their careers.


10 posted on 01/20/2026 8:53:23 AM PST by boycott
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"That is the sign of a very weak, insecure man."

So is the "D" after his name.

11 posted on 01/20/2026 8:53:36 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sirius Lee

CaCaLand’s own accounting office, the LAO, just days ago called him a liar on how he misrepresented state debt this fiscal year. Not just implied it, they called the governor a liar. E.g., he moved payments from incurred fiscal year to next — which would be fraud in a private company. So, instead of the ~$2B deficit, the LAO says the deficit is >$20B.

Do not believe anything out of the mouth of this pathological liar.


12 posted on 01/20/2026 8:55:26 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: thegagline
It is always a laugh when Democrats start using disgusting homosexual imagery to try and derail conservative initiatives. Newsom should have a bar of soap shoved in his mouth:


13 posted on 01/20/2026 8:55:42 AM PST by fireman15
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To: bobbo666

Wow, I did not know that. How can that bastard do that by himself? Are there no accounting principles that apply to the fiscal management of the state government?


14 posted on 01/20/2026 8:57:31 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Sicon

I’m assuming he went to Davos...that must mean all of CA’s problems have been solved!! Have to ask WHY he went there!


15 posted on 01/20/2026 8:59:26 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: thegagline

Start arresting people ... Yes, the leaders ... Elected of not.


16 posted on 01/20/2026 9:00:18 AM PST by Whatever Works
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To: thegagline

Is a governor publicly suggesting the president is doing something illicit and repulsive for some kind of favor exchange? Which never would happen in this case

How low we have come when we have such a disgusting person in charge of a state.


17 posted on 01/20/2026 9:00:43 AM PST by stanne
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To: thegagline
Did someone say kneepads?

Kamala Harris new knee pads

18 posted on 01/20/2026 9:00:47 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: thegagline

If Bondi had the slightest intention to do anything, she would have already done that slight intention. She has not. It ain’t happening with her. We just as well get use to it.


19 posted on 01/20/2026 9:01:38 AM PST by odawg
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To: thegagline

Newsome is showing he’s worshipping the leftist media and their echo chamber. That’s not the real world, despite the daily Beltway propaganda. In the global community of power brokers, Newsome is a Nebbish. A nothing.


20 posted on 01/20/2026 9:02:19 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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