Trump beligerantly voices dislike of major Pacific ally diplomat (Kevin Rudd of Australia) while the Ambassador to U.S. in that very room

Monday Oct. 20, 2025 -- reported by POLITICO's

Jacob Wendler

 "I don't like you either

and I probably never will" --

see details of this awkward,

stubborn thin-skinned voicing of

Trump's essential "transactional" requirement:

I Like those ingratiating before me /

I Despise anyone who holds out praising me

politico.com/news/2025/10/20/trump-australian-ambassador-rudd-meeting-00615379

Trump in the past has attempted

to bully the Australian former

P.M. slandering him as

not the brightest bulb in the shed . . .