How many birds did he shoot with just one stone?
1. He totally shot down Rudd and only accepted his apology off camera because he got revenge in making Rudd look like THE village idiot.
2. Showed how weak and cowardly of character Albanese is for the world to see, when Albanese threw Rudd under the bus with a cowardly two-faced laugh.
3. Proved to the world how above the Establishment the position of an American President should be BECAUSE as you could see, the position of the Australian political leadership is the WEAKEST globally.
4. Point #3 proves that the Australian political people are strong v the American political people are weak.

Albanese was the ultimate global embarrassment of weakness and character cowardice like no other political leader yet, in the face of Trump who utilises the position of a President like it should - like a Boss (if it was a novelty, it's better than a first black man or first woman novelties that the Democrats offered).
Slagging off Trump, just like Rudd did. Albanese didn't even realise that the exchange between Trump and Rudd was also a warning to Albo himself. Another village idiot.

It was a great moment in global politics to see an American President, one of the greatest, if not the greatest - put the position of Australian Prime Minister in its place.

As I've always said.
The Governor General's serve Great Britain
Prime Minister's serve the USA.
...and didn't Albanese grovel.

Yup, correct way to treat a full blown narcissist.

A bribe would have worked too—Trumpy is nothing but a grifter.

Jasin wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 9:45am:


Regarding your first point, all that shows is how thin-skinned Trump is. It's a rare day when I agree with Rudd, but his assessment of Trump was absolutely and completely spot-on. As for your second point, it isn't exactly a secret that Albanese is weak, and we saw it when he laughed at Rudd's expense rather than keep a straight face or even stick up for his Ambassador. On your third point, Trump is just a bully. That's all he is, just a bully. If he were President of Micronesia, he'd get laughed out of the room and no world leader would give him the time of day. It's only because he is President of the United States and the power that country has (not Trump personally), that world leaders are having to stroke the giant man baby's fragile ego in order to work with him for the good of their people.

I will say that Albanese did well to get that rare earth minerals deal, but should've pushed harder to have tariffs removed in return. It's a travesty that Australia is subject to tariffs when the United States has a trade surplus with Australia. Albanese was pretty weak not to use that leverage he had over Trump. Albanese should've given Trump a taste of his own medicine.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 12:11pm:



Albo would have been acting on top advice -
he did as much as he could get away with.

In any case as far as AUKUS goes -
the Yanks are running a protection racket -

e.g.

'it's a nice country you've got there in Australia -
it would be a pity if the Chinese invaded and no one helped you.'

Albo and Dudd should have asked for a better deal.

How about -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia-class_submarine#cite_note-CRS2023-3

Cost $4.3 billion per unit w/VPM (2023)

Convert to $A = $A 6.6 billion each.

Lets make it A$10 billion each to give a generous profit margin for the Yanks.

Cost of 8 subs 8 x 10 = $80 billion.
Add in A$20 billion for some sub servicing port that the Yanks could use as well.

That makes a deal for $A 100 billion.

That's a lot less than $368 billion that we will pay.
I have just saved $268 billion and the Yanks made a huge profit too.
Everyone is happy.

Frank wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 2:32pm:


"He leaves Washington with everything he came for: a deal on critical minerals, an assurance on AUKUS, and an alliance reaffirmed."

Quote:


Yes trump proves he is a dopey bugger multiple times almost every day.

greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 3:20pm:

That's a BANNING OFFENCE.

ALERT TO GMODS.
Someone report this infringement and let's see if the GMODS act?