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australian prime minister Anthony Albanese publicly supported its ambassador to the United States, Kevin Ruddafter donald trump told the former Australian leader he didn’t like her During a meeting at the White House.
The encounter came during Mr Albanese’s first meeting with the US President on Monday where the two leaders discussed trade and business Security ties and rare earth and critical minerals deal worth $8.5 billion signed,
When Mr Trump was asked about Mr Rudd’s past comments, including now-deleted tweets, which were highly critical of him, the president asked: “Did any ambassador say anything bad about me?”
Mr Rudd, who was AustraliaHe was briefly prime minister from 2007 to 2010 and again in 2013, and acknowledged that he had made the comments before taking up his posting in Washington. Mr. Trump then interrupted him, saying, “I don’t like you either. And I probably never will.”
This conversation echoed laughter all around the cabinet room.
Mr Albanese later played down the incident, calling it “just some prank” and insisting “everything is good” between Mr Trump and Mr Rudd.
“You know, it was just some joke that was going on in response to a question asked of the president,” he told reporters.
“It certainly wasn’t a significant moment.”
Speaking at Friends Off Australia Breakfast in Washington which was attended We MPs Mr Albanese again praised Mr Rudd’s performance. He said, “If there’s any hard-working ambassadors on The Hill, please let me know, because Kevin works his guts out and it seems like he knows everybody.”
The Prime Minister later attributed much of this The success of his American tripThat included Mr Rudd’s efforts to sign the rare earth deal. “I thank you publicly today – your hard work is responsible for the success of this journey,” he said at a separate event to mark the 140th anniversary of mining giant BHP.
Mr Rudd in 2020 described Mr Trump as “the most destructive president in history”, a “traitor to the West” and a “village idiot”.
Once reporters left the room after the talks at the White House on Monday, Mr Trump reportedly told Mr Rudd that “all is forgiven”. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Mr Albanese told reporters in Washington: “According to President Trump, everything is forgiven.”
,Kevin Rudd “He is doing a fantastic job as ambassador and I have to say, on the Hill, every single person that we met and the people that we spoke to this morning, they all say exactly the same thing,” the Prime Minister said.
Australian The opposition leader, Sussan Ley, had argued that the ambassador’s position had become “untenable” and called for his dismissal.
He said, “I’m a little surprised that the President didn’t even know who the Australian ambassador was and that in itself tells you what the relationship is like.”
“When the ambassador is the punchline of the joke and the prime minister is actually laughing at him, I think that’s what you need to be aware of in the fact that it’s probably not appropriate that he should continue in the role,” he told Channel Seven.