United States President Donald Trump has barred California Governor Gavin Newsom from the official USA House at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, after the governor publicly mocked his keynote speech as “remarkably boring” and “remarkably insignificant.”
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Newsom claimed he was denied entry to America’s official headquarters at the forum following pressure from the White House on Wednesday.
The incident occurred after Newsom rushed out of Trump’s keynote address to tell reporters that the president had backed down on his Greenland threats.
“It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going to invade Greenland. It was never real,” Newsom, who is reportedly sizing up a presidential run in 2028, told reporters after the speech.
Newsom was reportedly scheduled to speak at USA House with a panel hosted by Fortune Magazine before being denied entry.
“How weak and pathetic do you have to be to be this scared of a fireside chat?” Newsom wrote on X after he was turned away.
The White House’s official Rapid Response account on X fired back at Newsom, mocking him for watching the president’s speech.
“The failing Governor of California (rampant with fraud) watches from the corner cuck chair as @POTUS delivers a true masterclass in Davos. Embarrassing!” the rapid response account wrote alongside a picture of Newsom at Trump’s speech.
Interestingly, Trump had earlier declared himself NATO’s “daddy” during his speech and shouted out Newsom, calling him a “good guy” who he “used to get along great with.”
During his keynote speech at the gathering of global elites, Trump focused heavily on his ambitions regarding Greenland, claiming the Danish territory was actually American.
“This enormous unsecured island is actually part of North America. That’s our territory,” Trump declared, while reportedly referring to Greenland as Iceland on multiple occasions.
The president cited World War II history to support his claims, stating that the United States was compelled to send forces to hold Greenland after Denmark fell to the Nazis.
“After the war, which we won, we won it big — if it weren’t for us you’d all be speaking German and a little Japanese perhaps. After the war we gave Greenland back to Denmark, how stupid were we to do that? But we gave it back and how ungrateful are they now?” Trump said.
Trump issued veiled hints that he could still use America’s military might if Denmark refused his demands.
“We never ask for anything and we never got anything, we probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force. We would be frankly unstoppable, but I won’t do that,” he said.
He added a chilling warning: “So we want a piece of ice for world protection. And they won’t give it. We’ve never asked for anything else, and we could have kept that piece of land and we didn’t. So they have a choice. You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative. Or you can say no and we will remember.”
The president claimed Greenland would be used to build infrastructure for a “Golden Dome” defense system to protect the Western Hemisphere from ballistic missiles.
Trump revealed he had imposed tariffs on eight European nations over their support for Greenland. The tariffs will start at 10 per cent next month and rise to 25 per cent in June, remaining in place until a deal is reached.
The president also spent a long stretch of his speech criticising the UK’s use of windmills to produce power, claiming it was the cause of high energy prices in Britain.
Before Trump spoke, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer had vowed, “I will not yield.”
Trump’s apparent U-turn on using military force to take Greenland ignited the popular “TACO” meme among Wall Street traders — an acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
The term was coined by Wall Street traders last May after the president repeatedly flip-flopped on tariffs.
Stock market traders celebrated on X following Trump’s de-escalation, with investors in Tokyo posting gleeful memes even before the opening bell in New York.
“Japan stocks and US stocks both going up!! So glad I believed in Trump-san’s TACO,” wrote one Japanese trader using the honorific form of address for the president.
Stephen Dover, chief market strategist at Franklin Templeton, noted: “The [market] decline is small, given the gravity of the situation. What that implies to me is that most investors are thinking TACO.”
Trump, a former New York real estate tycoon who closely tracks Wall Street, is likely aware that stocks tumbled amid the Greenland controversy. Shares later rebounded after the president pledged not to use force.
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