Better late than never
Anthony Albanese has finally locked in a meeting with Donald Trump at the White House next month. In an Oval Office built for spectacle, putting on the charm might be his best bet.
Anthony Albanese has been dogged by accusations that the Trump administration takes an ambivalent, even hostile, view of him.
So, confirmation that he will finally sit down with the US president in Washington next month at least solves one political problem in the short term.
Even if the timing does raise an eyebrow. On Wednesday, Albanese told reporters that Trump had agreed to the meeting “some time ago” but gave no further detail.
One former government source, who didn’t wish to be named, told Capital Brief that any suggestion a meeting was already on the cards before this week is “absurd”.
