{"id":142939,"date":"2026-01-21T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:46:18","slug":"gavin-newsom-attacks-europes-complicity-over-trump-greenland-demands-gavin-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142939\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom attacks Europe\u2019s \u2018complicity\u2019 over Trump Greenland demands | Gavin Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gavin Newsom, the governor of California<\/a>, has decried Europeans for their \u201ccomplicity\u201d in failing to stand up to Donald Trump\u2019s demands that he be allowed to buy or annex Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newsom<\/a>, a frontrunner among Democratic candidates for president in 2028, told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that Europeans were being \u201cplayed\u201d by Trump and that their efforts to negotiate with him were \u201cnot diplomacy, it\u2019s stupidity\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to buck up, it\u2019s time to get serious and stop being complicit,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cI can\u2019t take this complicity. People rolling over. I should have brought kneepads for all the world leaders \u2026 this is pathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsom regularly suggests that US politicians who cosy up to Trump should be given kneepads \u2013 making it easier to kneel \u2013 and he sells them on his website. \u201cFor all your groveling to Trump needs now in Republican red,\u201d reads the advertisement for the kneepads, which bear a copy of Trump\u2019s signature. \u201cFor the low low price of your soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

European leaders have been hesitant to risk an open rupture in ties with the US<\/a>, which is a major trading partner and on which Europe relies for much of its security. A number of European leaders have vied for the role of \u201cTrump whisperer\u201d as they have sought to prevent him from withdrawing support for Ukraine or pulling out of Nato.<\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s demands that he be allowed to take over Greenland<\/a>, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, and his threat to tariff European governments until the territory is given to him, have elicited confusion, anger and proposals to retaliate by levying Europe\u2019s own tariffs against the United States.<\/p>\n

A number of European politicians wrote to Trump to seek meetings with him before the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. In one, Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of Nato and formerly the prime minister of the Netherlands, continued to take a flattering tone with Trump, saying that \u201cwhat you accomplished in Syria today is incredible\u201d.<\/p>\n

He was referring to the conclusion of a ceasefire between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work there, in Gaza, and in Ukraine,\u201d Rutte continued. \u201cI am committed to finding a way forward on Greenland. Can\u2019t wait to see you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has decried Europeans for their \u201ccomplicity\u201d in failing to stand up to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-142939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142939","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=142939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}