"California Governor Gavin Newsom returned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's Davos mockery of him by comparing him to a juvenile obsessed with an ex, joking he was living rent-free inside the heads of President Donald Trump and his top cabinet officials. The clapback came a day after Bessent used his own appearance at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday to joke that Newsom reminded him of a cross between American Psycho Patrick Bateman and Sparkle Beach Ken."
"The Treasury Secretary talked about a Barbie doll, Newsom said. It was as if he was reading a diary and had just broken up with someone. I mean, that was the Secretary of the Treasury using valuable time yesterday on the world stage. We're deeply in their head. I think the affordability agenda appears to be I'm living rent-free in Trump's head, Trump administration's head."
California Governor Gavin Newsom struck back at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's Davos mockery by portraying the attack as evidence of insecurity inside the Trump administration. Bessent had compared Newsom to a cross between Patrick Bateman and Sparkle Beach Ken. Newsom said the Treasury Secretary talking about a Barbie doll sounded like someone reading a diary after a breakup and argued that his affordability agenda has the administration fixated on him, saying he lives rent-free in their heads. Newsom defended his social media tactics as 'fight fire with fire,' called the rhetoric a deviation from normalcy and challenged uneven criticism from conservative media.
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