{"id":141499,"date":"2026-01-20T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:05:06","slug":"trumps-a-t-rex-and-pathetic-leaders-need-to-confront-him-rages-californias-newsom-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141499\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s a T-Rex and \u2018pathetic\u2019 leaders need to confront him, rages California\u2019s Newsom \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsom, who is one of the highest-profile Trump critics in America, confirmed last fall<\/a> he is thinking about running for president in 2028. The California governor would be a leading contender to secure the Democratic nomination. <\/p>\n

He was cajoling European leaders after Trump belligerently stepped up his threats to seize Greenland in recent days, announcing that he will will impose 10 percent tariffs on eight countries\u00a0that have opposed the sale of Greenland to the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Heads of government in Europe are scrambling<\/a> to find a response that will cool the situation \u2014 as Trump ratchets up his own belligerent rhetoric. <\/p>\n

The U.S. president posted <\/a>overnight that he\u2019d spoken to NATO chief Mark Rutte, agreed to a meeting in Davos with key players on Greenland \u2014 then leaked a text message from French President Emmanuel Macron, shared a map of the Western Hemisphere showing Canada (and Venezuela) as American, and berated Britain for ceding a military base in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

In another message Trump shared on Truth Social, NATO boss Mark Rutte sent him a text saying: \u201cMr. President, dear Donald \u2013 what you accomplished in Syria today is incredible. I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work there, in Gaza, and in Ukraine. I am committed to finding a way forward on Greenland. Can\u2019t wait to see you. Yours, Mark.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump said that he was\u00a0no longer interested<\/a> \u201cpurely\u201d in peace\u00a0due to not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0The prize ended up going to Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, who last week\u00a0gifted her medal<\/a>\u00a0to Trump\u00a0\u2014\u00a0though the\u00a0Nobel committee\u00a0subsequently\u00a0issued a statement that\u00a0while the physical award may change hands,\u00a0the actual honor itself\u00a0is not transferable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newsom is known for sending knee pads for politicians who he says have bowed down to Trump, and sells them on his website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsom, who is one of the highest-profile Trump critics in America, confirmed last fall he is thinking about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71233,7,9,8,70744,536,1703,150,22402,71234,435],"class_list":["post-141499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arctic-ocean","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-davos","tag-donald-trump","tag-military","tag-nobel-prize","tag-trade-war","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}