Donald Trump has criticised Kevin Rudd’s Australian Ambassador to the US appointment including comments calling him ‘nasty’ and ‘not the brightest bulb’ in an interview with Nigel Farage.
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00:00 The AUKUS deal that's in place on nuclear submarines, America, the UK, Australia, very, very important deal.
00:07 It's there to try and combat that huge growth, naval growth in China.
00:13 But now of course things have changed in Australia.
00:15 We've got a Labour government in Australia.
00:17 The previous ambassador, Joe Hockey, I think was quite a good friend of yours.
00:20 You got on pretty well with him.
00:22 Now they've appointed Kevin Rudd, former Labour MP.
00:26 I mean, he has said the most horrible things.
00:30 You were a destructive president, a traitor to the West.
00:33 And he's now Australia's ambassador in Washington.
00:37 Yeah, well, I don't know.
00:38 Would you take a phone call from him?
00:40 He won't be there long if that's the case.
00:41 I don't know much about him.
00:43 I heard he was a little bit nasty.
00:45 I hear he's not the brightest bulb.
00:48 But I don't know much about him.
00:50 But if he's at all hostile, he will not be there long.
00:53 Fair enough.
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