Trump’s daughter-in-law suggests Ambassador Rudd should go

Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law is convinced Australia’s Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd may not be the man for the job if the former Republican President returns to the White House next week.

Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law is convinced Australia’s Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd may not be the man for the job if the former Republican President returns to the White House next week.

Speaking to Sky News Australia anchor Erin Molan, Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee chair and the wife of Eric Trump, slammed Rudd’s comment that her father-in-law was a “traitor to the West”.

She said it was “kind of hard” for the Australian government to retain the former prime minister as the US Ambassador after making the comments and not having “a change of heart”.

“It’s not my decision but I do think it would be nice to have a person who appreciates all Donald Trump has gone through, to want to serve our country, at this really critical moment in the history of America,” Ms Trump said.

“Obviously, that is a little bit tough to take, and maybe we would want to choose someone else (to represent Australia in the US).

Australian Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd at a US summit in September. Picture: AFP

“Donald Trump is of course the opposite of a traitor to the West, he is literally saving the free world.

“We had no new wars for the first time in 82 years under his leadership and that is a place the world agrees we want to get back to right now.”

In an interview with Nigel Farage in March, the Republican leader described Mr Rudd as “nasty and “not the brightest bulb” after learning of the former prime minister’s comments.

Mr Trump told Farage the Australian Ambassador to the US “won’t be there long” if he is returned to the White House.

Mr Rudd has previously described the former president as a “problem” for Australia, telling the Oxford Union “Trump at present represents a political liability for both sides of Australian politics” in 2017.

“Donald, as we know, is not, a leading intellectual force,” Mr Rudd said in a 2018 address to the Washington-based think tank he runs, Asia Society in 2018.

He the told the Cambridge University Union Mr Trump’s supporters were “angry white men”.