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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to have neutralised US President Donald Trump’s plan to slap on 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports
This news has outraged the Federal Opposition and Australia’s conservative media, who were hoping that Donald Trump would pave the way for Dutton to become Prime Minister by impulsively fucking over both Albanese and the Australian economy.
Unfortunately for Albanese’s critics, it appears that Donald Trump has decided against giving the Australian government the ‘Trudeau Treatment’.
It is not yet known what said to win over Trump during the phone call this morning, but it has left local political pundits stunned that Albanese performs well in the basic diplomatic duties required from a Prime Minister. Especially when he isn’t facing the nonstop scrutiny of an Australian media that desperately wants Peter Dutton to take power so that our natural resources remain untaxed and our housing crisis remains unresolved.
Trump signed the executive order for blanket tariffs in the Oval Office yesterday, while declaring that his decision was “the beginning of making America rich again.”
However, the Albanese Government remains confident that a special deal for Australia is in the works.
Shortly after declaring there would be no exceptions for the tariffs, Trump has since confirmed that Australia might secure a better deal.
“Mr President, the Australian prime minister has said you are considering an exemption for Australia on steel. Is that correct?,” Mr Trump was asked during a recent press conference.
“I just spoke to him. Very fine man. He has a surplus,” the US leader replied.
“And I told him that that’s something that we’ll give great consideration to.”
As the Peter Dutton now reaches desperately to find something to negative about this hopeful resolution, the conservative media and political class are beginning to remember that Albanese actually might have learnt a few tricks in the decade he spent working Labor leaders Mark Latham and Kevin Rudd – two of the most sensitive egos and emotionally volatile autocrats in modern Australian politics.
