Newsom’s Davos Ego Trip Left California Broke, Isolated, and Desperate

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

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Instead flaunting his new red “Trump kneepads” to world leaders and corporate elite in Davos, Switzerland, during the 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, Gavin Newsom should be more concerned about this state’s abysmal relationship with the federal government argues Elaine Culotti, Daily Signal California correspondent, on today’s special video commentary. “To be clear, our biggest problem in California is the fact that we have no relationship whatsoever with President Trump and the administration. So we can't pick up the phone and call and say, “Hey, we need a lifeline.” It does not exist. It's been destroyed. And with the Pacific Palisades and the fires in California, it has been unveiled how deep that destruction is.” 👉For more videos like this, subscribe to The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel and enable notifications to be alerted the second a new video drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Has anybody been watching what's going on in Davos?
0:32.6	So I just want to sew things up a little bit, being from California and watching Gavin Newsom. What I have seen the last couple of days is positively disturbing.
0:41.3	This man, Gavin Newsom, governor of California, thinks it's okay to refer to world leaders as people who need knee pads because they are working with the Trump administration.
0:53.3	To be clear, our biggest problem in California
0:56.4	is the fact that we have no relationship whatsoever with President Trump and the administration.
1:02.5	So we can't pick up the phone and call and say, hey, we need a lifeline. It does not exist. It's been
1:07.7	destroyed. We are hung out to dry by Gavin Newsom. Hi, I'm Elaine Kalati and I'm reporting for The Daily Signal.
1:30.1	I got a new sign. Do we like it?
1:33.5	Has anybody been watching what's going on in Davos?
1:36.8	So I just want to sew things up a little bit.
1:41.7	Being from California and watching Gavin Newsom. What I have seen the last
1:47.0	couple of days is positively disturbing. Gavin Newsom and his action and reaction to comments made,
1:57.2	and he is responsible. He's made his own comments on his own. He made a comment about knee pads.
2:02.5	He's made multiple comments about world leaders. He's made comments about how he's been treated.
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