It was only a few weeks ago that Kevin Rudd was sprung in a trap laid by Nigel Farage, who held Donald Trump’s hand and walked him into criticising the current Australian ambassador to the United States.

Despite it being patently obvious that Trump had next-to-zero idea about the target of his own snark – “nasty … not the brightest bulb” – it led to idiotic wall-to-wall headlines. Kevin blamed News Corp’s Boris Whittaker, who Ben Fordham later claimed even wrote the question. No love lost between those Queenslanders, foes for decades now.