{"id":278742,"date":"2025-11-12T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278742\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:47:10","slug":"newsom-calls-trump-an-invasive-species-and-wrecking-ball-in-fiery-remarks-at-cop30-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278742\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom calls Trump an \u2018invasive species\u2019 and \u2018wrecking ball\u2019 in fiery remarks at COP30 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n California Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled no punches at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil on Tuesday, calling President Donald Trump an \u201cinvasive species\u201d and a \u201cwrecking ball\u201d during discussions about the US absence from global climate action<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Newsom, a Democrat widely viewed as a likely presidential candidate in 2028, is the most high-profile US political figure attending the talks in the Amazon city of Bel\u00e9m. The Trump administration made the unprecedented decision not to send a high-level delegation to the annual talks \u2014 the latest move in its sharp pull away from global climate action.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump has spent the past year tearing up climate policies, seeking to strangle clean energy projects<\/a>, pushing other countries to buy US oil and gas and withdrawing the US<\/a> from the Paris climate agreement. In a speech at the United Nations in September, Trump called climate change a \u201ccon job.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Newsom, who has a history of sparring with Trump, appears to be using COP30 as an opportunity to set out a different vision for US climate action. \u201cI do not want the United States of America to be a footnote on climate policy,\u201d he said at an event Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n He took sharp, personal aim at Trump for abandoning efforts to tackle the climate crisis. \u201cHe\u2019s an invasive species. He is. He\u2019s a wrecking ball president. And he\u2019s trying to roll back progress of the last century \u2026 he\u2019s doubling down on stupid,\u201d Newsom said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s stance is handing victory to China, he added. China is dominating clean energy supply chains and manufacturing \u201cbecause they understand the great economic opportunity,\u201d Newsom said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Newsom was also asked about the Trump administration\u2019s reported plan to open the California coast to oil and gas drilling, as reported<\/a> in The Washington Post yesterday based on a leaked draft map.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s never going to happen. Over our dead body. Dead on arrival. Period. Full stop,\u201d Newsom said. He asked the audience to consider why Trump might be targeting California. \u201cHe has no interest in opening up oil drilling rigs right off the coast of Florida, across the street from Mar-a-Lago,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The White House shot back with its own fiery reply to Newsom\u2019s comments.\n <\/p>\n

\n Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, sent this in response to a request for comment: \u201cGovernor Newscum flew all the way to Brazil to tout the Green New Scam, while Californians are paying some of the highest energy prices in the country. Embarrassing! If Gavin Newscum\u2019s\ufeff support for the climate agenda was sincere, he would not be attending a climate summit that required chopping down thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest for a special purpose highway. It\u2019s time for Newscum and other countries to drop the climate facade. President Trump will not allow the best interest of the American people to be jeopardized by the Green Energy Scam. These Green Dreams are killing other countries, but will not kill ours thanks to President Trump\u2019s commonsense energy agenda.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The special-purpose highway Rogers referred to is a four-lane road built through the rainforest to Bel\u00e9m, which Brazilian authorities say was planned before the city\u2019s COP bid.\n <\/p>\n

\n Newsom also spoke about the need to make the climate crisis more tangible. Talking about average global temperature rises and using terms like \u201cgreenhouse gas\u201d makes climate change seem \u201cabstract,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n People can see climate change unfolding before their eyes, he added, referring to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires<\/a> in January, which scientists say were made larger and more intense by planet-warming pollution.\n <\/p>\n

\n Newsom also talked about the need for the Democratic party to reframe climate action around affordability in upcoming elections, pointing to rising energy costs as Trump pulls away from clean energy and an insurance crisis unfolding in the US as extreme weather becomes increasingly destructive.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe have to talk in terms that people understand \u2026 it\u2019s about people, it\u2019s about places, it\u2019s about lifestyles, it\u2019s about traditions,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled no punches at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil on Tuesday, calling President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-278742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}