Trump Tells Australian Ambassador 'I Don't Like You' During Tense White House Standoff

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President Donald Trump had a blunt assessment of an Australian official on Monday, Oct. 20 Trump was meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to strike a deal on rare earth minerals, but it was another politician who drew his ire. Seated across the table from Trump and Albanese was Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is now the Aussie ambassador to the U.S. Rudd has frequently been critical of Trump in the press. He called the president a “quack apothecary” for promoting unproven cures during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the world had seen "what "America First' means in practice: don’t look to the United States for help in a genuine global crisis, because it can’t even look after itself."

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00:00Mr. President, there's been concern in Australia that it's taken nine months to get this meeting.

00:05Have you had any concerns with this administration, with its stance on Palestine, climate change,

00:10or even things the ambassador said about you in the past, the Australian ambassador?

00:14I don't know anything about him.

00:16I mean, if you said bad, then maybe he'll like to apologize.

00:19I really don't know. Did an ambassador say something bad?

00:23Don't tell him that.

00:25Where is he? Is he still working?

00:26Yeah, yeah.

00:30You said bad?

00:31Before I took this position, Mr. President Biden.

00:33I don't like you either.

00:35I don't. And I probably never will. Go ahead.

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