{"id":144920,"date":"2026-01-22T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:09:11","slug":"newsom-on-world-stage-accuses-trump-of-trying-to-suppress-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144920\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom, on world stage, accuses Trump of trying to suppress dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday morning said he was not surprised the Trump administration blocked his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland the day before, saying it was another example of the president trying to stifle dissent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it surprising the Trump administration didn\u2019t like my commentary and wanted to make sure that I was not allowed to speak? No,\u201d said Newsom, who is weighing a 2028 presidential run. \u201cIt\u2019s consistent with this administration and their authoritarian tendencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Democratic governor spoke Thursday morning in Davos, less than a day after his scheduled conversation with Fortune at USA House was canceled<\/a>. Newsom said the event had been positioned as a discussion following Trump\u2019s speech at the global forum<\/a>. However, Newsom said, the Trump administration \u201cmade sure it was canceled.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s happening in the United States of America,\u201d said Newsom, whose Thursday appearance speaking with Semafor\u2019s Ben Smith was at a different location. \u201cFreedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech \u2014 it\u2019s America in reverse. They\u2019re censoring historical facts. They\u2019re rewriting history.\u201d<\/p>\n

The USA House is a privately run and corporate sponsored venue serving as the official United States hub at the Global Economic Forum. The venue featured several Trump administration speakers this week. <\/p>\n

Newsom\u2019s office said they were told last minute that a \u201cvenue-level decision\u201d had been made to \u201cnot include an elected U.S. official\u201d in the programming. A spokesperson for Fortune, which was hosting Newsom\u2019s fireside chat, said USA House \u201cdetermined it would not be able to accommodate the governor\u2019s participation and communicated that decision to Fortune.\u201d<\/p>\n

White House officials declined Wednesday to directly address whether the administration had played a role in blocking Newsom\u2019s appearance, instead issuing a statement attacking the governor personally.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo 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,\u201d White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in the statement.<\/p>\n

Newsom noted he looked at the list of people attending his appearance Thursday, which he said included major businesses like Microsoft, before he accused corporate America of falling in line rather than challenging Trump\u2019s rhetoric and policies<\/a>. At one point, Newsom held up a pair of red knee pads featuring Trump\u2019s signature \u2014 a prop he has used to point to an excessive deference to Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany American universities are selling out, and yes, many corporate leaders are selling out to this administration,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cSelling out our values, selling out our future, selling out what makes America great and [it] breaks my heart. People need to stand up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday morning said he was not surprised the Trump administration blocked his appearance at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7625,21538,7,9,8,70744,65980,46949,29457,33879,71843,3290,27119,36690,1519,1695,71842,72442],"class_list":["post-144920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-america","tag-appearance","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-davos","tag-democratic-governor","tag-dissent","tag-fortune","tag-freedom","tag-global-forum","tag-newsom","tag-speech","tag-switzerland","tag-trump","tag-trump-administration","tag-usa-house","tag-venue-level-decision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144920","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=144920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}