I squirmed in my chair when I saw the report of the meeting between Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and President Donald Trump at the Battle of the Coral Sea celebrations

Malcolm Turnbull was scheduled to have a two hour meeting with Donald Trump

Then because of 'circumstances' the meeting was cut down

Eventually Malcolm Turnbull got all of half an hour with Trump. Donald Trump raved about our great friendship and glad handed Turnbull. Malcolm Turnbull lapped it up and put on a brave face...what else could he do. He must have felt embarrassed as hell

I tell you one thing Donald you don't sh.t on your best friend. And Australia is the best friend America ever had. You treated out Leader like sh.t and it therefore goes that you treated the people of Australia like sh.t by definition.

When your best friend travels half way round the world to talk to you..you don't sh.t on them and deal out a half an hour meeting

Get can get well and truly Donald, you are starting to believe your own publicity

I have been one of your strongest supporters but I'm not going to sit back and watch you sh.t on our Country. F....k off!

The Trumptards are slowly starting to understand the truth about the bloated, orange, alleged child rapist.

Took 'em long enough.

'Mr Beazley said the distance between New York and Washington could be logistically difficult and the healthcare bill was a "reasonably good" excuse.

He also said it could make the President much warmer during the meeting.

"I think it probably puts Trump somewhat on the back foot in dealing with Turnbull, so it may make him a much more amenable dialogue partner when he finally turns up," he said.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the delay was a bad look.

"I didn't like the look of our Prime Minister being kept waiting for three hours," he said.

"But I guess there's not much you can do about that."


The passing of the new health care bill was a huge morale-booster and triumph for Trump, and so I think he can be forgiven somewhat.

However, Trump's handshake with Turnbull displayed poor form when he quickly looked away from a smiling Turnbull with no smile of his own, upon which moment Turnbull dropped his own smile like a hot brick.

The body language was not good.

That doesn't augur well for our future relationship with the Trump admin., but perhaps Trump will redeem himself if and when he visits Australia.

I'm reserving my opinion of him until we see more of him in the coming years.

Churchill said that great leaders are usually not very good people.

And then there was Trump's foot-shooting moment of accidental truth-telling when he commented that Australia's healthcare was better than America's...

Lord Herbert wrote on May 7^th, 2017 at 10:18am:




Perhaps it was the words "serious question" that threw you?

mothra wrote on May 7^th, 2017 at 10:23am:


It was a good question.

No surprise, though, that cods didn't answer and that the troll-king found it confronting.

red baron wrote on May 7^th, 2017 at 8:25am:


We will make Amerika great again, Red.

NorthOfNorth wrote on May 7^th, 2017 at 10:59am:


The very word 'politics' assumes the practitioners employ every degree of falsehood and deceit to achieve their purposes.

The bombing of Pearl Harbour is a classic case in point where the US president and Britain's Churchill conspired to let the bombing happen so that it would bring the Americans into the war.