Gavin Newsom calls Trump ‘invasive species’ and blasts US climate policies at Cop30

Gavin Newsom calls Trump ‘invasive species’ and blasts US climate policies at COP30



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  1. [California governor Gavin Newsom](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/gavin-newsom-showing-democrats-how-fight-donald-trump-3960427?srsltid=AfmBOooZOsfZ4EI5LSBQnbLMvhZrhc89Fj_dPNIG2ZF5FoiAHHFrlS-0&ico=in-line_link) took aim at what he called Donald Trump’s “dumb” decision to reverse the federal government’s course on climate action, as he spoke at [the Cop30 climate summit ](https://inews.co.uk/news/tax-rich-developing-nations-fight-climate-change-4026089?ico=in-line_link)in Brazil.

    Making several appearances at the UN’s annual climate summit, held this year in the Amazonian city of Belem, Newsom vocally attacked the US President’s stance on the clean energy economy.

    He said Republicans were ceding the fast-growth market to China, which “will dominate in the next great global industry.”

    “The United States of America is as dumb as we want to be on this topic, but the state of California is not. And so we are going to assert ourselves, we’re going to lean in, and we are going to compete in this space,” he said.

    Newsom said the messaging needs to change so average citizens can connect with the issue on factors such as economics and cost.

    “Climate change seems abstract. We need to talk in terms that people understand,” he said.

    The Trump administration did not send an official delegation to the talks in Brazil this week.

    Instead, Newsom, whose state represents the world’s fourth-largest economy, has been meeting with officials from some of the 195 global governments in attendance, making him the most high-profile US politician at the summit.

    He said Trump’s decision to skip the talks tells the world: “You don’t matter, we don’t care.”

    Speaking with investors on Monday at a conference in the Brazilian financial hub of Sao Paulo, Newsom said the vacuum in US climate leadership was “jaw-dropping.”

    The Californian governor, widely considered a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, also described Trump’s broader policies as threats to the rule of law and democracy.

    He warned that the decision by eight senators to break with Democrats to end the government shutdown suggested they were not alarmed enough by Trump’s political norm-shattering.

    “I’m not coming in to punch anybody in the face, but I’m not pleased that, in the face of this invasive species that is Trump, who’s completely changed the rules of the game, that we’re still playing by the old rules of the game,” Newsom told the *Associated Press* on the sidelines of the summit.

    “And in my core, I’m stunned.”

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