00:00Prime Minister's trying to compare you to Donald Trump. Is that a compliment or a slight...
00:04Prime Minister, why would you invite Donald Trump to Australia when you've got a Timu
00:08Trump sitting right opposite you?
00:11Name calling has been an unfortunate staple part of any election campaign.
00:17But even before the federal election was called in 2025, journalists, politicians and punters
00:25alike were referring to the opposition leader as Timu Trump.
00:30So where did this name come from? And why has it been assigned so readily to the coalition leader,
00:36Peter Dutton?
00:37From what Australians have seen thus far, they'd be forgiven for thinking that you are right up
00:41Donald Trump's arse.
00:43Well, that might be a Labour line, but it's just not true.
00:46The nickname Timu Trump is warranted because it's clear that Dutton is attempting to emulate
00:51or copy even Trump's politics, you know, and what he sees as Trump's successful retail politics.
00:58Perhaps the more important question is, will it work?
01:01The name has become a shorthand suggestion that the coalition leader may promote policies similar
01:07to those of US President Donald Trump. But is it fair to say that Peter Dutton's election promises
01:14are all that similar to the policies of Donald Trump? If elected, Peter Dutton pledges to cut
01:2141,000 public servant jobs to reduce government spending. Whereas Donald Trump introduced the
01:28Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, under Elon Musk, which led to tens of thousands
01:35of job losses within the first few months of the Trump presidency.
01:40I have created the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.
01:45So she will take on the important role of shadow minister for government efficiency.
01:49You're all obsessed with Donald Trump. We're not.
01:52We can make Australia great again, that we can bring Australia back to its former glory,
01:57that we can get Australia back on track.
02:01Peter Dutton has taken some quote-unquote lessons, I suppose, from Trump's victory in
02:08the United States, and is quite clearly emulating many of Trump's lines around things like, you
02:17know, woke-ism and its effect on young white men in particular.
02:22Both Trump and Dutton have taken particular aim at so-called political correctness in government.
02:29Wokeness is trouble. Wokeness is bad. It's gone.
02:33I think a lot of young males feel disenfranchised and feel ostracised.
02:40But even with the comparisons in hand, US politics expert Dr Emma Shortis says you can't
02:47completely compare the two politicians, since the systems of government in either country
02:53differ so much.
02:54So mobilising different voter bases is critical to a victory in a presidential election, as
03:02is suppressing or, I suppose, turning away other groups from voting at all.
03:10And Trump did that really successfully.
03:12That's not a strategy that the Coalition can, I think, successfully pursue in Australia,
03:17because we have compulsory voting.
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