Staff Reports
Gavin Newsom tried to flex his political muscles at Davos, but it was more like watching a comedy skit where the punchlines missed their mark. Newsom aimed to score some laughs, but it was the audience who ended up laughing—and not with him. His brand of humor was more like trying to sell sand in the Sahara.
In his attempts to play the cool guy—or perhaps more accurately, the cool guy from a buddy cop movie—Newsom found himself on the receiving end of some serious burns. Trump’s former Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and Elon Musk didn’t hold back. They reminded him that running California is one thing, but trying to spread his wings on the national stage is quite another, especially when the wings are made of paper.
Comparisons flew as fast as tweets on Twitter, with observations that Newsom was like Patrick Bateman meets a Sparkle Beach Ken doll. That’s a visual that sticks with you like gum to a shoe. They pointed out that his economic prowess might leave something to be desired; perhaps even former Vice President Kamala Harris knows more—and that’s saying something, folks. It seems his jokes were a bit like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, only to discover it was just an old sock.
Even as Newsom attempted to land blows, he ultimately ended up taking more punches than Rocky Balboa in the boxing ring. He lobbed a strange comparison, saying President Trump was like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It seemed he was reaching for a metaphor but wound up tangled in a web of confusion. What’s a Brontosaurus, you ask? Well, it’s not a dinosaur anyone remembers, much like Newsom’s attempts at humor. Maybe the knee pads he brought along might have been more suited for his meetings with Alex Soros than his comedy act.
The session in Davos was less about wowing the crowd and more about inadvertently showing that Newsom’s grasp on reality might just be as loose as a cheap toupée in a windstorm. References to Gotham’s Joker taking over New York and the ensuing chaos might be closer than he intended to his own political playground. If he aimed to showcase his leadership, he succeeded only in proving that sometimes it’s better to stick to the script—or in his case, maybe even stay behind the curtain entirely.
