California Gov. Gavin Newsom is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. President Donald Trump is also expected the high-profile economic meeting. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
China recently has intensified its activities in the Arctic region, while Greenland has historically served as a strategic outpost for the military to conduct missile detection during the Cold War.
Newsom unleashed that European leaders were "being complicit" with Trump, urging them to "have a backbone" while slamming gifts foreign leaders have given Trump, such as Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gifting her Nobel Peace Prize to the president in January.
"This is pathetic," Newsom continued in his comment to reporters. "Nobel Prizes, they are being given away. I mean, it's just pathetic. And I hope people understand how pathetic they look on the world stage. I mean at least from an American perspective. It's embarrassing."
Newsom added that Trump is allegedly "playing folks for fools" and compared Trump to a T. rex who is on the prowl to mate or eat.
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"This is diplomacy with Donald Trump. He's a T.rex. You mate with him or he devours you, one or the other. The Europeans could be (devoured) if they continue down this path and process. They need to stand tall, stand firm, stand united," Newsom said. "Look, a year ago we should have been having this conversation, and they didn't. And now you're paying the price — exactly what anyone, objective observer, would have anticipated we'd be where we are today."
Newsom's office did not provide additional comment on the governor's remarks when approached for by Fox News Digital on Tuesday afternoon.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., and President Donald Trump shake hands on Jan. 24, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump was asked about Newsom's presence in Davos Tuesday during a press briefing considering the pair's ongoing political spats that commonly focus on Trump criticizing the left-wing governor's policies in the deep blue state.
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"I had a very good relationship with Gavin Newsom when we were, you know, in office together," Trump told the media, referring to his first term in the Oval Office. "I was president. He was the governor of California. We had a really, he would talk about it often, and somewhere we just went astray. I just, I just hate the way California is being run. We actually have people leaving. It's never happened before, but I hate the way it's being run. He and I had a very good relationship. Really, close to the word exceptional, but now we seem not to."
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