West Australian Premier Roger Cook on Tuesday called J.D. Vance a “knob” in an off-hand remark to business leaders, days after the US vice president played a central role in a White House meltdown with Ukraine and as Canberra tries to fend off US sanctions.
Cook, the Labor leader of the iron ore export-dependent state for nearly two years and who strongly criticised Donald Trump before he was re-elected as president, made the remark at the end of a breakfast function in Perth where he had just completed a speech.
