'Have A Backbone': Gavin Newsom Slaughters European Leaders' 'Pathetic' Attitude Toward Trump
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The California governor said he "should have brought knee pads" for them.
Gavin Newsom has told European leaders to “have a backbone” and start standing up to Donald Trump after his latest meltdown over Greenland.
The California governor hit out after the U.S. president threatened to impose tariffs on the U.K. and seven other European countries unless he takes control of the Arctic island.
While the European Union has hinted at retaliation, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday said he would not hit back with tariffs on American imports to Britain.
Despite that attempt to pacify the president, Trump accused the prime minister of “great stupidity” in handing over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
But speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Newsom — an outspoken critic of Trump — said it was time for all of Europe to stand up to the president.
Jeff Landry was disinvited from attending a sled dog race as the president continues to threaten the island.
Scott Bessent initially refused to answer, but then bizarrely backtracked in an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker.
The Homeland Security Secretary also accused Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of refusing to “protect their own people."
The White House deputy chief of staff's bizarre claim came after a New York Post columnist wrote that “local cops have gone AWOL."
The high court is considering whether President Donald Trump can fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, as he said he would do in late August, in an unprecedented attempt to remove one of the seven members of the Fed's governing board.
President Donald Trump cited his Nobel Peace Prize snub as a justification for his push to acquire Greenland in a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere.
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace," the president wrote in an extraordinary message to the Norwegian prime minister.
“It’s literally the end of the world," said comedian Tim Dillon.
It went around in circles.
The Duke of Sussex is the lead litigant in a case full of high-profile plaintiffs who accuse the publisher of the Daily Mail of invading their privacy.
The newspaper's conservative editorial board pointed out the "sad irony" of the president's bid to seize the island.
A protester let the president know exactly how he feels about U.S. efforts to take Greenland.
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