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US ambassador Kevin Rudd (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finally held his long-awaited meeting with US President Donald Trump overnight, and it was all going fine until a journalist asked what had delayed the meeting so.

Could it be, for example, US ambassador Kevin Rudd’s comments, in the aftermath of Trump’s baseless and ultimately deadly lies about having the 2020 election stolen from him, that the president was a “traitor to the West” and “destructive”?

This prompted a toe-curling exchange where Trump, sounding like a mean, scary baby, asked Rudd, “ You said bad? ” and, when Rudd confirmed he had indeed said bad, added, “I don’t like you either, and I probably ne

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