Despite being invited
California Governor Gavin Newsom has said he was blocked from speaking at a World Economic Forum event in Davos and blamed the Trump administration.
Newsom’s office said on X that USA House, the official US pavilion at the global event, denied his entry to speak there on Wednesday despite being invited as part of an event by media partner Fortune.
The Democratic governor, whose state has the fourth largest global economy, wrote on X: “California was just denied at the USA House. Last we checked, California is part of USA.”
I didn’t know that about the fourth largest. Google says it’s true: right up there with Germany and Japan.
But wait, it gets worse.
The White House criticised the governor for attending the summit of global leaders and said that he should instead focus on his state.
“No one in Davos knows who third-rate governor Newscum is or why he is frolicking around Switzerland instead of fixing the many problems he created in California,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement to the BBC.
Oh for godsake. Press secretaries shouldn’t adopt Trump’s vulgar nicknames for people he doesn’t like.
