Things are once again “heating up” in Davos, Switzerland — not because of climate change, but because the world’s self-appointed ruling class has arrived at its annual luxury retreat.
There, in a five-star ski resort, billionaires, bureaucrats, corporate titans, and political operatives are gathering to pontificate about the global economy, geopolitics, artificial intelligence, and, of course, climate change. From private jets and sprawling estates, they will lecture ordinary citizens about austerity, carbon footprints, and how we should live — all while enjoying champagne, chauffeured SUVs, and taxpayer-subsidized security.
Good stuff, eh?
But now, President Trump and his team have arrived and as they say, let the fun begin. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick began on Tuesday with a strategic critique of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its “globalist orthodoxy.”
“The Trump Administration and myself, we are here to make a very clear point — globalization has failed the West and the United States of America,” Lutnick announced. “It’s a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export, offshore, far-shore, find the cheapest labor in the world, and the world is a better place for it.”
On Wednesday, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent addressed the audience ahead of President Trump’s arrival. In his remarks, he targeted California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) directly, stating that Newsom “may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.”
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Oof! But Bessent was just getting started:
.@SecScottBessent in Davos: "I think it's very, very ironic that Newsom — who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ben — may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros." pic.twitter.com/9BmdpaebEd
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 21, 2026
I think it’s very, very ironic that Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. He’s here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros, and Davos is a perfect place for a man who – when everyone else is on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having thousand-dollar-a-night meals at the French Laundry – and I’m sure the California people won’t forget that.
And, my message to Governor Newsom is the Trump administration is coming to California. We are going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse.
And I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies, but he’s not speaking because what have his economic policies brought? Outward migration from California. A gigantic budget deficit. The largest homeless population in America. And the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down. He is here hobnobbing with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless.
Shame on him. He is too smug, too self absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything.
Look at how much fun Bessent is having sticking it to the 2028 hopeful — the same aspiring president who’s already been dubbed this week “the diva of Davos.”
There he is, strutting through the Alps, rubbing shoulders with the deep-pocketed global elite, angling for donor approval and international validation from the very crowd that thinks middle America is an inconvenience. This is the man who wants to run the country, auditioning for billionaires and bureaucrats at a luxury ski resort, hoping they’ll bankroll his glide path to the White House.
Oh, and in case you were wondering about Bessent’s reference to Ken:
https://twitter.com/TeriChristoph/status/201398063720445174
Patrick Bateman, of course, is the iconic lead in American Psycho — impeccably groomed, flawlessly dressed, and outwardly successful, while underneath he’s a hollow, narcissistic, morally bankrupt sociopath barely holding it together.
Which is why Scott Bessent absolutely nailed it with his characterization of Newsom.
