California Gov. Gavin Newsom is accusing the Trump administration of pressuring a planned interview between a U.S. media company and the Democratic governor to be cancelled. The Trump administration has fired back at those claims.<\/p>\n
President Trump\u00a0walked back his threats<\/a> of military force in Greenland\u00a0during his speech<\/a>\u00a0to world leaders at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. That was the global headline, but the president later mentioned Newsom by name in his speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We’re going to help the people in California. We want to have no crime,” Trump said. “I know Gavin was here. I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president.”<\/p>\n Newsom was in the audience for the moment, and he was caught on camera shaking his head in response to some of the president’s speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n “He was never going to invade Greenland. It was never real,” Newsom said. “So that was always a fade. So he said we should negotiate. Well, everyone here has been saying we should negotiate for a year.”<\/p>\n Newsom later announced he was denied an opportunity to use the USA House, an official U.S venue in Davos, for an interview with Fortune magazine.\u00a0His press office tweeted<\/a> that the interview was cancelled “under pressure from the White House and State Department.”<\/p>\n A White House spokesperson, Anna Kelly, did not confirm nor deny Newsom’s claims. Instead, Kelly issued a statement to CBS News Sacramento saying, “No one in Davos knows who third-rate governor Newscum is or why he is frolicking around Switzerland instead of fixing the many problems he created in California.”<\/p>\n Claremont McKenna political science professor Jack Pitney said Mr. Trump’s focus on Newsom is not policy-related.<\/p>\n “A lot of world leaders know his name now,” Pitney said. “I don’t think he’s playing multi-dimensional chess, here. It’s just that Newsom got under his skin.”<\/p>\n Newsom will have more eyeballs on him on Thursday when he takes the stage at Davos for a speech expected to be critical of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n