If you’re expecting Albo’s meeting with President Trump today in D.C. to break new ground, don’t get your hopes up. My guess? It’ll be the same script we’ve seen in every Trump-world leader sit-down, and it’s all about one bloke: himself. We saw it with Modi. We saw it with Carney. Only the accents are different.
Picture it. The Oval Office. Albo suited up, armed with talking points on AUKUS subs, critical minerals, and ways to dodge tariffs that could kneecap Australian exports. But before he can even clear his throat, Trump launches into his greatest hits.
“I stopped eight wars – eight! Tremendous deals, nobody does it better. The Democrats? They’re wrecking America, but because of me we are now the envy of the world.”
Then comes the obligatory nod to the visitor: “Australia’s great, love the kangaroos, big shell thing in Sydney – people there love me, huge fans.”
And before Albo can mention anything of substance – minerals, alliances, climate, take your pick – Trump’s off again, riffing on his wall, his golf courses, how much he knows about grass, and how “everyone” says his comeback was the greatest in political history.
AUKUS? “Under review, but strong.”
Tariffs? “We’ll work it out. Australia’s a fair trader, mostly.”
Defence spending? He’ll push that magical 3.5% GDP figure while Albo points to our 2.3% and smiles diplomatically, hoping it counts as progress.
If there’s a press conference, expect the usual chaos: Trump declaring the meeting “historic” and “the best ever with an Australian,” while Albo nods through the superlatives, wondering if it’s too soon to ask about steel exemptions.
No blow-ups, no breakthroughs – just Trump being Trump.
For Australia, it’s a diplomatic box-ticking exercise. Albo shows up, keeps the alliance alive, and prays the tariff threat stays on ice. But don’t expect headlines or game-changers. This is classic Trump theatre: a one-man show with a global audience.
When the cameras stop rolling, the script remains the same – America first, the rest of us lucky to be in the credits.
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Albanese should tell Trump: “…take off all the tariffs or AUKUS is cancelled and what’s more we are selling our rare earth minerals to China from now on…”;
and then phone home and tell Marles to get the B-52 bomb proof shelters ready for occupation.
Yes Michael there’s all that and then there’s this, which is currently a one sided argument promoted by Albo et al.
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/10/19/what-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-fears-most/
Disgusted by everything this person does.
A cheeky journalist (not sure who but Newscorp comes to mind) decided to ask Trump about prior comments made by the Australian Ambassador to which Trump responded:
“Did an ambassador say something bad about me? Don’t tell me. Where is he, is he still working for you?” Trump asked Albanese.
Albanese pointed out Rudd, who was sitting on the other side of the table.
“You said bad?” Trump asked Rudd.
“Before I took this position, Mr. President,” Rudd responded.
“I don’t like you either. And I probably never will,” Trump said before moving on to another question.
Anybody know who that journalist was? It seems unnecessarily provocative to ask such a question.
It’s worse than we thought. Symbolically, we have our Prime Minister chuckling at an insult by Trump, directed at a former Australian Prime Minister. That’s a degrading spectacle – our PM feeling, as apparently all other Western leaders do, that he must swallow any pride and dignity, and fawn over this deranged clown now in control of the USA, (and apparently of Australia, too)
Practically worse, too – as Australia must continue to pay up for that mythical beast AUKUS, – even if we never get the soon-to-be-obsolete nuclear submarines anyway.
Worse too, that Albanese has committed Australia to the mining and REPROCESSING of rare earths. There’s a reason why Lynas reprocesses its rare earths in Malaysia, not in Australia. That’s because Malaysia, like China, has a horror history of radioactive pollution caused by reprocessing of rare earths. Australia is now committed to this toxic radioactive waste problem.