Gavin Newsom is taking his Donald Trump-bashing and California boosterism international, with plans to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next week.

Newsom, a likely presidential contender, will attend the nonpartisan confab of corporate and cultural elites to offer a counterbalance to the president, who will also be attending the forum and bringing the largest-ever U.S. delegation.

“Trump’s economic agenda betrays our nation: it is not ‘America First’ but ‘Trump First’ — rewarding the favored, punishing the dissenters, and burdening the rest,” Newsom said in a statement. “At the World Economic Forum, I will forcefully confront these abuses and resolutely defend the principles to which California owes its economic strength: disciplined governance, world-leading universities, boundless innovation, and an open embrace of global cultures.”

The California governor is slated to speak Thursday, one day after Trump’s scheduled speech, and will also attend private meetings with foreign leaders and business executives during his three-day trip.

Newsom aims to use the backdrop of the conference, a symbol of global capitalism, to blast the president’s economic stewardship as “an assault on the free market,” according to his office. He plans to rip into Trump as a “crony capitalist” pursuing personal enrichment while bullying private businesses and directing his administration to assume stakes in five U.S. companies.

But the ire will not only be aimed at the president. Newsom intends to call out the well-heeled audience for being “complicit” with Trump, continuing a confrontational streak he displayed toward the business community at the New York Times DealBook summit last month. Newsom has mockingly suggested that corporations, law firms and universities who have struck deals with the administration should wear kneepads for acquiescing to the president; his political website sells $100 red kneepads emblazoned with Trump’s signature.

“He’ll be bringing an extra suitcase of kneepads for anyone lining up to bend the knee to Donald Trump,” a Newsom spokesperson said.

The overseas excursion also gives Newsom another chance to portray California as a quasi-nation state that offers an alternative economic model to Trump’s, a continuation of the home state cheerleading from the governor at the international climate talks in Brazil last year and in his State of the State address last week.

“As Trump undermines long-standing alliances, California will remain a beacon of stability and loyalty,” Newsom said. “To remain silent in the face of such wrongdoing is not neutrality — it is complicity.”