This is ridiculous:
Before he replaced Arthur Sinodinos as Australia’s ambassador to the US in March last year, former prime minister Kevin Rudd was openly hostile toward Donald Trump.
He variously branded the former president as “the most destructive president in history”, “nuts”, guilty of “rancid treachery”, “mercurial” and “episodically hard-line”.
But now Rudd is now working on a contingency strategy to be of service to Trump if he does indeed win back the White House. In the last few weeks Rudd has met with Trump endorsed, Republican vice-presidential contenders including South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and Republican Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott.
He has also met with Trump’s former director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, former Trump national security adviser Robert O’Brien and former Trump Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
He has met dozens of Republican members of Congress including Republican senator and “Trump whisperer” Lindsey Graham, key AUKUS negotiator and Trump friend Roger Wicker and Trump supporter and ranking member of the US Foreign Relations Committee Senator Jim Risch.
And? That’s just Rudd doing his job. Like a bricklayer…you know…laying bricks.
We all know that Donald Trump is a raging narcissist. Publically humiliating such a fellow can not be undone, gotten around, or finessed.
If Donald Trump is elected president, Australia should shift every diplomatic accommodation contract into his hotels. That’s how you win favour with this kind of bloke.
The one thing you do not do is leave in place someone who competes for attention with the narcissist.
Rudd, in place with Trump, will be a clear and present danger to the Australian national interest.
