Posted on 01/20/2026 1:01:41 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has decried Europeans for their “complicity” in failing to stand up to Donald Trump’s demands that he be allowed to buy or annex Greenland.
Newsom, a frontrunner among Democratic candidates for president in 2028, told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that Europeans were being “played” by Trump and that their efforts to negotiate with him were “not diplomacy, it’s stupidity”.
“It’s time to buck up, it’s time to get serious and stop being complicit,” he told reporters. “I can’t take this complicity. People rolling over. I should have brought kneepads for all the world leaders … this is pathetic.”
Newsom regularly suggests that US politicians who cosy up to Trump should be given kneepads – making it easier to kneel – and he sells them on his website. “For all your groveling to Trump needs now in Republican red,” reads the advertisement for the kneepads, which bear a copy of Trump’s signature. “For the low low price of your soul.”
European leaders have been hesitant to risk an open rupture in ties with the US, which is a major trading partner and on which Europe relies for much of its security. A number of European leaders have vied for the role of “Trump whisperer” as they have sought to prevent him from withdrawing support for Ukraine or pulling out of Nato.
But Trump’s demands that he be allowed to take over Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, and his threat to tariff European governments until the territory is given to him, have elicited confusion, anger and proposals to retaliate by levying Europe’s own tariffs against the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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Guy who murdered 13 people in the Palisades so he could “Reimagine” it in his own commie image full of low income housing says what??
Did someone ask for a clown's opinion?
Wow - sorry EU
When even Gavin Gruesome implies you are a cuck, its really bad.
He’s telling foreign powers to resist against his own country?
Reminder: One of the reasons the left impeached Trump and his staff was over allegations of violating the Logan Act. And Trump was the President-elect, which Newsome is not.
More evidence Trump has the right idea.
Another democrat traitorous scumbag.
This week, hundreds of top political leaders from around the world, including close to 65 heads of state and government, are gathering in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026.
Hypocrisy is a hallmark of the Left. Newscum is a poster child for it.
FU Greasy Nuisance
HE IS COMPELLED TO RUSH TO THE CAMERAS & CONTINUE TO MAKE A TOTAL ASS OF HIMSELF.
HE ISN’T FIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF BASKIN ROBBINS OR WENDY’S
“Newsom a frontrunner among Democrat candidates for president in 2028”
What?? Says who? LOL
It is illegal for a person to sell merchandise with the President’s signature on it-—especially if authorization has NOT been given to the individual.
Newsome is a cheap greased back hair, coked up weirdo with clear efforts, if not actual predilections of homosexuality sliming off his Gollum like face. What an amateur, what a poseur and what a weak, really weak half-a@@ lightweight of any political party. Not a good unique thing to be.
This takes the cake for ridiculousness reduced ad absurdum.
Third World American Traitor Newscum goes to Europe Globalist World Scum to denounce Trump and America ....who would have guessed he would sink that low?
None of your beeswax, Noisome.
Who cares what the Joker says.
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