"California Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday called world leaders weak and "pathetic" for failing to stand up to President Trump and urged them to stand up to the man he called a bully on the global stage. Newsom, a frequent antagonist to the U.S. president, questioned why leaders of powerful nations have shied away from confronting Trump even when he comes up with outlandish ideas like seizing Greenland."
""It's time to stand tall and firm and have a backbone. I can't take this complicity of people rolling over. I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders," Newsom told reporters. "I hope people understand how pathetic they look on the world stage," Newsom added."
"The top Democrat said the efforts of European leaders to play nice with Trump have only emboldened him to take more aggressive stances on trade and geopolitical issues. He advised the allies to take firm stands and stick to them, even if they draw blowback from Trump. "What he responds to is strength, not weakness. Period. Strength," Newsom said. The WEF has drawn nearly 3,000 government leaders, corporate CEOs and policy professionals who were supposed to grapple with the impact of rising inequality, artificial intelligence and Trump's global trade war. But Trump has thrown the event into turmoil with his renewed demands for a U.S. takeover of Greenland, the vast Arctic island that is a semi-autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark. He even wants to slap new tariffs on European nations that oppose the seizure, sparking a serious debate among European leaders about how to respond."
Governor Gavin Newsom accused world leaders of appearing weak for failing to confront President Donald Trump and urged them to push back against his behavior. He characterized leaders who accommodate Trump as complicit and said strength, not appeasement, is the appropriate response. Newsom warned that conciliatory approaches have emboldened Trump to adopt aggressive trade and geopolitical positions, citing his renewed talk of seizing Greenland and threats of tariffs. Newsom called Trump a unique threat to global peace and security and urged allies to take firm, consistent stands even if they risk blowback from the U.S. president.
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