There are growing calls for Kevin Rudd to resign as Australia’s ambassador to the United States due to the previous poor relationship between him and Donald Trump.
In a 2020 tweet, Rudd accused Trump, then president, of dragging “America and democracy through the mud.”
“The most destructive president in history,” Rudd wrote.
He likes to foster division, not cure it. He abuses Christianity, the church and the Bible to justify violence.
“All aided and abetted by Murdoch’s FoxNews Network in the United States, which fuels this.”
Rudd deleted this tweet as the US election campaign entered its final week.
In other comments on the media and social networks, Rudd called Trump “crazy” and a “traitor to the West.”
There are growing calls for Kevin Rudd to resign from his job as Australia’s ambassador to the United States following a history of bad blood between him and Donald Trump.
When British interviewer Nigel Farage brought these comments to Trump’s attention in March, Trump fired back by saying he had heard Rudd was “nasty” and “not the brightest light bulb.”
Upper House Libertarian Rep. John Ruddick said Rudd had only one course of action following Trump’s surprising presidential resurrection.
“Kevin Rudd should act civilly and offer his resignation,” Mr Ruddick told Daily Mail Australia on Thursday.
‘I am calling on Kevin Rudd to do it immediately. “We cannot have an ambassador who has been so partisan against the incoming president.”
Ruddick, a strong Trump supporter, predicted that if Rudd remains in office, “our most important international relationship would be dysfunctional.”
“As Trump is known, personal relationships are very important to him and he is not the kind of person who forgives,” Ruddick said.
‘Rudd has acted foolishly as a diplomat because he has not been very diplomatic. He has been an expert and they are not good ambassadors.
When Trump was told about some unflattering comments from Rudd, he responded that he had heard the former Australian prime minister “was unpleasant” and “not the brightest light bulb.”
Before the US election, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump said it would be “a little difficult” for the government to keep Rudd in Washington if he had not shown signs of a “change of heart” toward Trump.
“It’s not my decision, but I think it would be nice to have a person who appreciates everything that Donald Trump has been through and wants to serve our country at this moment, this really critical moment in American history,” he told Sky. News.
“Obviously, that’s a little difficult to accept, and perhaps we would want to elect someone else (for the top US embassy position).”
UAP Senator Ralph Babet, who is in the United States to attend the presidential election, also asked Mr Rudd to come and say “the The only reason they sent him to the United States in the first place was so as not to cause any problems here at home.”
“Their position is completely untenable,” said Senator Babet.
‘If Kevin Rudd had any decency, humility or self-respect, he would resign immediately.
And if our Prime Minister had any balls, he would immediately call Kevin Rudd in Australia.
“While I was in the United States I have not met a single person within conservative circles who spoke fondly of Ambassador Rudd.”
Ahead of Wednesday’s US election, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed Rudd would remain US ambassador, telling ABC Radio on Monday: “Australia decides who our ambassador is, and Mr Rudd is doing a fantastic job.”
Rudd was criticized last week for taking time off before the US presidential election to promote his new book, which warns of the dangers of China’s dictatorship.
New South Wales Upper House Libertarian MP John Ruddick is calling for Rudd to step down as US ambassador.
While Rudd is being hounded for past comments he made about Trump, he is not alone among Labor figures in making unflattering comments about the brash property tycoon-turned-politician.
A recently resurfaced video from 2017 shows Albanese appearing at a question and answer session on Splendor in the Grass when he was serving as the Labor Party’s transport and infrastructure spokesperson while in opposition.
When asked how he would “deal with Trump,” Albanese responded, “With fear.”
Pressed further, Albanese said “you have to deal with who gets elected” since Trump has been in the White House for six months.
“We have an alliance with the United States, we have to deal with it, but that doesn’t mean we don’t criticize it,” Mr. Albanese said.
“He (Trump) scares the hell out of me and I think it’s worrying that the leader of the free world thinks you can do politics through 140 characters on Twitter overnight.”
Sunrise host Nat Barr suggested Albanese may need to apologize after Trump was elected US president on Wednesday night and reporters dug deeper into the matter on Thursday morning.
“No, I hope to work with President Trump,” he insisted.
‘I think I have demonstrated my ability to work with world leaders and develop relationships with them, which are positive.
“And I think I have demonstrated that in the two and a half years that I have had the honor of being Prime Minister.”
