'Not the brightest bulb': Donald Trump hits out at Kevin Rudd

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Washington: Donald Trump has hit out at former prime minister Kevin Rudd, declaring he is “not the brightest bulb” and suggesting that he may not be able to remain Australia’s ambassador to the US “if he’s at all hostile” under a second Trump presidency.

In an interview with former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage on Britain’s right-leaning GB News, the Republican nominee was asked what he thought of Rudd, who has previously described Trump as “nuts”, a “traitor to the West” and “the most destructive president in history”.

Noting that Trump “got on pretty well” with former ambassador Joe Hockey – who used to play rounds of golf with then-president Trump – Farage said: “Now they’ve appointed Kevin Rudd, a former Labor MP. I mean, he has said the most horrible things – you were a destructive president, a traitor to the west – and he’s now Australia’s ambassador in Washington …”
“He won’t be there longer if that’s the case,” Trump replied.

“I don’t know much about him. I heard he was a little bit nasty. I hear he’s not the brightest bulb. But I don’t know much about him. But if, if he’s at all hostile, he will not be there long.”

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So tsf has decided that our former PM and Foreign Mininster, an expert on China, an ex-career diplomat and current ambassador to the US is a bit dim.

[Turbineguy]

1. Trumps biggest asset is his incompetence.

[BootinUp]

2. Some years back must have been 2016,

I sent him a thank you email for some of the things he said at the time. He wrote back too.