Randall Flagg Lite Went to Davos and He Got Pwned, Uh-Huh

Randall Flagg went to Europe, and he did ride, Uh-huh,
Randall Flagg went a-courtin’, all puffed with pride, Uh-huh,
Randall Flagg went to Davos, and he did ride.
With a smirk and kneepads by his side, Uh-huh.

Oh, let’s close the week out on a high note, shall we?

I know you all have seen some of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s ongoing evisceration of California Governor Gavin ‘Randall Flagg Lite’ Newsom, who appeared out of nowhere in Davos. But there’s been more, and talk about getting the unctuous governor’s greasy goat – holy smokes.

Bessent’s initial crack at Newsom, about being Sparkle Beach Ken (besides a wicked good jab about $1000 a night French Laundry dinners while he had the rest of the state locked up)…

Yes he did 🤣🤣🤣🤣 turn up the volume pic.twitter.com/oFkaIruOy1

— GenX Unfiltered (@GenXunfiltered2) January 22, 2026

…was just too hilarious for others to pass up.

OMG Bessent is right. He DOES look like Sparkle Beach Ken! pic.twitter.com/muwxIKtmU0

— Paul Mauro (@PaulDMauro) January 21, 2026

That happened during a marvelous forty-minute-long, unscripted press conference that the Treasury secretary handled with his usual urbane aplomb.

But there were other interviews, and other targets for his wicked brand of humor.

🚨 Scott Bessent Torches the ‘Muppets’ From the Biden Admin

“If I hear another one of these muppets from the Biden administration say, ‘oh, we knew about this critical minerals problem.’ Why the hell didn’t they do anything?? They had four years, and they sat on their hands!” pic.twitter.com/cV5u6MyjPX

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 23, 2026

‘Republicans’ weren’t safe. I loved this zinger.

BESSENT: How can Murkowski be against Greenland when she herself is from Alaska, which we purchased from the Russians?

pic.twitter.com/eWNGP9JnO7

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) January 22, 2026

Even the local cuisine came in for a roasting.

BESSENT: “A few years ago when it was, you’re not going to own anything, you’re going to eat insects — it was just the inmates running the asylum at that point.”

BURNS: “You’re not into the bugs?”

BESSENT: “After a few days of Swiss-German food, I may switch to bugs.” 🤣 pic.twitter.com/W9ZIKuu26p

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 23, 2026

But Newsom – he made himself an outsized target and then had such a time when Bessent’s jibes were read back to him. You can see his tiny, feral brain running through the checklist, click click click, choosing what he thinks is the best reaction for the audience. Should he be outraged? Should he laugh in good humor? 

“The treasury secretary described you as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken”

🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/PmVXPw6tZ8

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 22, 2026

Yeah. This was not his finest moment on the world stage he’d thrust himself onto.

The face of a man who knows he got absolutely cooked pic.twitter.com/VCOOQYT3wj

— John Loftus (@JohnCFLoftus1) January 22, 2026

But it got worse…oh, yeah.

In a petty display more in tune with a petulant, hormonal fifteen-year-old’s juvenile nastiness, the presidential aspirant and sitting governor of California waved ‘Donald Trump Signature series’ kneepads around during that same interview while still talking about Bessent.

🚨 NOW: Gavin Newsom promotes his “Trump Knee Pads” at the World Economic Forum pic.twitter.com/ncNzDt3uj3

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 22, 2026

Seriously.

THESE ARE AVAILABLE AND IN BULK, TOO

He is terrible when he’s on the spot.

On the other hand, the Treasury Secretary is not.

When informed that Newsom had said he’d brought ‘kneepads’ for the European leaders who were caving in to Trump (and what a great impression Newsom had to make when those folks heard that line), Bessent was solicitous in his concern for Newsom’s mental state…and brutal.

🔥 Scott Bessent Just Wrecked Gavin Newsom 🔥

“I think Gavin Newsom may be cracking up with some of these things he’s saying. I think he may be in over his hairdo … If he brought the knee pads, maybe that was for his meeting with Alex Soros.” pic.twitter.com/pznNTOTKSa

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 23, 2026

IN OVER HIS HAIRDO

And I’m ded.

Newsom, for all of his bravado and insistence that he’s the courageous anti-Trump answer, took a royal pummeling at Davos. He looked like a preening buffoon when he had a chance to be in the limelight for brief periods. He was obnoxious in trying to force himself into camera range, and for as much damage as he’s done to what little gravitas he might have had, he should have stayed home.

The Trump team sidelined and humiliated him effortlessly, and Bessent bodied Newsom every single time he was asked about one of the governor’s anti-Trump soundbites.

Scott Bessent on Gavin Newsom: “I thought Kamala Harris was the biggest economic illiterate from California… I don’t understand his comparison [of Trump] to a T-Rex… [He] is like a Brontosaurus: A big lumbering beast with a brain the size of a walnut!”pic.twitter.com/aIf7vwPqJp

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) January 23, 2026

The functional teenage illiterates running Newsom’s press office weren’t up to the task of rescuing their boy although you know they had orders to.

Or maybe they struck out on their own. Either way, pathetic.

Scott Bessent flew across the ocean to star in The Real Housewives of Davos — and can’t stop talking about how “hot” he thinks @CAGovernor “Davos’ Daddy” Newsom is.

Weird!

Anyway, now that we’ve got your attention, Scott: release the Epstein files Treasury is sitting on. pic.twitter.com/4yHG1mdw2H

— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) January 23, 2026

And then, holy moly, as they don’t have but a brain cell and a half between them, like the good prog-bots they are, they just flat out went after Bessent for being gay.

LOL they took like a day to respond and it’s AI slop making fun of the fact he’s gay. https://t.co/q0rggStgLI

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 23, 2026

This is why California can’t have nice things.

But Trump’s team is why this country is once again going to.

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