Prime Minister Anthony Albanese endorsed Australia’s ambassador in Washington as doing a “fantastic job”, describing comments by US President Donald Trump that he does not like Kevin Rudd as “lighthearted”.
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Australia’s main conservative opposition party has called for Rudd, a former Labor prime minister, to be sacked after Trump made the comments at a press briefing in Washington on Monday.
Asked by an Australian reporter about Rudd’s past criticism of the president on social media, and told Rudd was sitting across the table from him, Trump said: “I don’t like you either, and I probably never will.”
Albanese said Trump had later told Rudd “all is forgiven”.
“It was pretty lighthearted, was what it was,” Albanese said in a television interview with Australian broadcaster Nine in Washington on Tuesday.
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“Kevin said, ‘Oh, sorry about comments in the past’, and they moved on,” he added.