Overview
- He is slated to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, January 22, one day after President Trump’s scheduled address on January 21.
- Newsom says Trump’s program is “Trump First” and an “assault on the free market,” and he plans to defend California’s economic model.
- His office says he will meet privately with foreign leaders and business executives and press CEOs and institutions he views as complicit with the administration.
- Politico reports he intends to call Trump a “crony capitalist” and to criticize reported moves to assume federal stakes in five U.S. companies.
- WEF chief executive Borge Brende says Trump is bringing the largest U.S. delegation ever to the gathering in Davos.