{"id":92342,"date":"2025-10-21T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92342\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:18:15","slug":"us-president-jabs-at-australias-former-pm-and-ambassador-at-white-house-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92342\/","title":{"rendered":"US President jabs at Australia\u2019s former PM and ambassador at White House meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rudd began to explain: \u201cThat was before I took this position, Mr President\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump cut him off, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t like you either. I don\u2019t. And I probably never will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials from the two allies laughed before another reporter quickly asked a new question.<\/p>\n

Rudd, a former prime minister from Albanese\u2019s Labor Party, was sharply critical of Trump in social media postings while Trump was out of office.<\/p>\n

Rudd called Trump, whose supporters rioted at the US Capitol after his 2020 election defeat, the \u201cmost destructive president in history\u201d and a \u201ctraitor to the West\u201d who \u201cdrags America and democracy through the mud\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rudd deleted the comments after Trump won back the White House.<\/p>\n

Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking former career diplomat, had been tapped as ambassador during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, with Australia hoping his expertise on China would gain him influence in Washington.<\/p>\n

Trump last year during the campaign called Rudd \u201cnasty\u201d and said he would not last long as ambassador, in an interview with hard-right British politician Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n

-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rudd began to explain: \u201cThat was before I took this position, Mr President\u201d. Trump cut him off, saying:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,45343,95,1975,24812,6727,69130,2178,39539,9875,2740,42,10053,63708,61092,2374,6722,43,16422,2572,415,62082,9939,9640,40,38,41,39,21419,2179,9938,3040,16550],"class_list":["post-92342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across","tag-ambassador","tag-and","tag-at","tag-australias","tag-cabinet","tag-disdain","tag-donald","tag-expressed","tag-facetoface","tag-former","tag-headlines","tag-house","tag-jabs","tag-kevin","tag-meeting","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-pm","tag-president","tag-prime","tag-rudd","tag-states","tag-table","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-towards","tag-trump","tag-united","tag-us","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}