Kuala Lumpur: Ordinarily, you might say “blink, and you’ll miss it”. But this is Donald Trump.

His presence in Malaysia, vanishingly brief and engineered squarely at winning his much-coveted Nobel Peace Prize next year, sent the energy at ASEAN to 11.

You knew Air Force One had disgorged the US president by the hooting and clapping from inside the vast press centre, whose 1000-plus occupants, mostly from South-East Asia, watched each swaggering presidential step on the in-house televisions.

Then, when he danced a Trumpian jig opposite the Malaysian dancers on the tarmac, well, that was hilarious – so the voices agreed.

Anthony Albanese didn’t get the convention centre buzzing like this. But he was busy from when he arrived about 5.30pm on Sunday (8.30pm AEDT) to the waiting Anwar Ibra

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