US President-elect Donald Trump’s top picks number one: Attorney-General, Congressman Mat Gaetz, who stated during the Trump campaign re the abortion issue, ‘Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb’. Questioned if his comment implies that women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight, he responded, ‘Yes!’ When asked if his comments might be seen as offensive, Gaetz responded, ‘Be offended.’ Uttered by the man whose first duty is to protect the rule of law.
Number two: Mexican Border Security ‘Czar’, Tom Homan, when asked, ‘Is there a way to carry out deportations without separating families?’ replied, ‘Of course, deport the whole family!’ Scary shades of North Korea’s Supreme Dictator Kim Jong Un.
Number three: Ramaswamy and Musk for the new Department of Government Efficiency, in Ramaswamy’s words: ‘Large scale mass layoffs is absolutely what we will bring in.’ Musk: ‘If you don’t like it, go f**k yourself! The world’s richest man laying masses of American’s off. Shades of Yes Minister!
Closer to home, Aussie US Ambassador, Kevin Rudd’s public criticisms of Trump – ‘village idiot’, ‘juvenile’, ‘traitor to the west’ – talk about backing the wrong horse in a job where you are being paid by your country to pick the right one.
Rudd will grovel on his belly to keep his job and very considerable perks of office.
So, what should Albo do? Sack Rudd for not remaining neutral? Sack Rudd for being brazen and egotistical? No – sack Rudd for being spineless (deleted all his X-tweets) and appoint Penny Wong in Rudd’s place.
Australia is certainly going to need one tough, determined US Ambassador to get to Trump’s ear this time about, and that ain’t going to be Kevin Rudd.
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