"Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has decried Europeans for their complicity in failing to stand up to Donald Trump's demands that he be allowed to buy or annex Greenland. Newsom, a frontrunner among Democratic candidates for president in 2028, told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that Europeans were being played by Trump and that their efforts to negotiate with him were not diplomacy, it's stupidity."
"I can't take this complicity. People rolling over. I should have brought kneepads for all the world leaders this is pathetic. Newsom regularly suggests that US politicians who cosy up to Trump should be given kneepads making it easier to kneel and he sells them on his website. For all your groveling to Trump needs now in Republican red, reads the advertisement for the kneepads, which bear a copy of Trump's signature. For the low low price of your soul."
Gavin Newsom criticized European leaders as complicit in failing to resist Donald Trump's demands to buy or annex Greenland. European efforts to negotiate with Trump were labeled not diplomacy but stupidity, with calls to stop rolling over. Newsom mocked politicians who grovel to Trump by marketing kneepads stamped with Trump's signature. European leaders have been cautious about rupturing ties with the United States because of trade and security dependencies. Some leaders tried to flatter Trump to preserve support for Ukraine and NATO. Trump's threats to take Greenland and impose tariffs provoked confusion, anger and proposals for reciprocal tariffs.
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