California's governor urged Europe to stand firm against Trump’s aggressive policies, calling current responses ineffective.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized European leaders' alleged complicity and lack of resolve and called on them to oppose former President Donald Trump's aggressive foreign policy. Calling the international response "embarrassing" and ineffectual, he denounced Trump's threats to acquire Greenland, warnings of high tariffs on European goods, and symbolic gestures like a Nobel Peace Prize award. Newsom promoted his own image as a defender of democratic norms ahead of a possible 2028 presidential run, comparing Trump to a T-Rex that demands submission and calling for unity and firmness.