British Vitality Safety and Internet Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, left, and California state governor Gavin Newsom pose after signing a clear power settlement on the International Workplace in London, on February 16, 2026
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U.S. President Donald Trump denounced a clear power settlement between the United Kingdom and California Governor Gavin Newsom hours after it was signed on Monday (February 16, 2026), Politico reported.
In an interview with the outlet, Mr. Trump stated it was “inappropriate” for Britain to be coping with the Democratic governor. Mr. Trump, a Republican, additionally branded Mr. Newsom “a loser,” saying “his State has gone to hell, and his environmental work is a catastrophe.”
Mr. Newsom is an outspoken Trump critic and has publicly mulled in search of the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.
The power settlement Mr. Newsom inked with British Vitality Secretary Ed Miliband on Monday pledged cooperation on clear power applied sciences resembling offshore wind, and goals to develop entry for British companies to California’s market.
“Donald Trump is on his knees for coal and Large Oil, promoting out America’s future to China,” a Newsom spokesperson stated in an e-mail. “Governor Newsom will proceed to steer in his absence. International leaders are rejecting Trump and selecting California’s imaginative and prescient for the long run.”
A spokesperson for Britain’s Division for Vitality Safety and Internet Zero stated that it continued to work intently with the U.S. authorities and that Monday’s settlement with California was “only one in a sequence signed on the State stage, together with Florida and Texas, that may ship jobs and progress within the U.Okay.”
Mr. Trump just lately invited the oil and gasoline business to appoint areas in Southern and Central California for a possible sale of offshore oil and gasoline leases as quickly as subsequent yr, a transfer Newsom and environmental teams condemned as a menace to the state’s ecosystems.
In January, Mr. Newsom was blocked from talking inside the official U.S. venue on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, a transfer he blamed on the White Home.
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