Team Australia vs Trump
Anthony Albanese and his ministers were blindsided by the Trump administration this week. But it is Peter Dutton who runs the risk of looking like he's not on Team Australia.
Peter Dutton is going all in on his strategy to paint Anthony Albanese as “weak and incompetent” for failing to secure an exemption from Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium.
If it works, it will likely be because the prime minister never gave the perception that he was giving it his all.
According to the opposition, Albanese should have worked harder to secure a meeting with Trump because the other two Quad leaders — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — have both met with the US president since he was elected.
Yet both Japan and India, along with every other country on Earth, were not spared from the tariffs. In November, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rushed to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump after the election, and now the US president is trying to crush Canada with economy-wide tariffs along with threats to annex the country.
