Newsom spoke with news site Semafor’s co-founder Ben Smith on Thursday.

The White House called California Gov. Gavin Newsom a nobody who has been “frolicking around Switzerland,” in response to claims the Trump administration shut him out of an event at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The allegation surfaced after Newsom criticized European leaders’ responses to President Donald Trump’s policies.

By Steve Holland and Christian Martinez DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 21 (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom, an outspoken Democratic critic of President Donald Trump, said he was blocked from speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos on Wednesday,

An on-stage interview with Newsom at the World Economic Forum was abruptly canceled just hours after he was seen smiling as President Trump called him out in a speech to world leaders that Newsom later called "remarkably boring" and "remarkably insignificant.

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office claims that the Trump White House exerted pressure to force organizers to cancel a planned speaking gig in Davos on Wednesday. Newsom has drawn extensive attention at the World Economic Forum,

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in an interview with Politico's Dash Burns, responded to Gov. Gavin Newsom's (DD-CA) attacks on President Donald Trump at the Davis World Economic Forum. DASHA BURNS,

Gavin Newsom went to Davos looking for a global spotlight. Instead, he got a slammed door — literally. The California

The California governor used Davos' spotlight to gain ground as traders lift his 2028 odds, narrowing the vice president's lead.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ripped Gov. Gavin Newsom in an interview with Politico over his rhetoric at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Credit: Politico - Jan. 22, 2026)