Andrew Bolt: The return of no-nonsense Donald Trump spells disaster for Anthony Albanese

Just look at how members of Trump’s no-nonsense team wiped the floor with Democrat Senators last week. Australia is next in line if Albanese doesn’t relinquish his clean energy pipe dream.

Donald Trump will be sworn in as US president this Monday – and Anthony Albanese’s world will be smashed.

Just see how key members of Trump’s team wiped the floor with Democrat Senators in their confirmation hearings last week, showing its going to be a new no-nonsense world and Australia must change or decline even faster.

For instance, Trump’s pick as Treasury secretary, hedge fund mogul Scott Bessant, blew up a pet fairytale of the Albanese Government after one Democrat insisted the US was in a “clean energy arms race with China”.

Albanese, our prime minister, has made the same claim, last year declaring “right around the world … we are in a race” for “clean, reliable electricity”.

Bessant responded by telling a truth Albanese won’t: “China will build 100 new coal plants this year. There is not a clean energy race. There is an energy race.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese must push Australia to align with the US as Donald Trump re-enters the White House. Picture: NewsWire

He’s right. Many countries now desperately want any energy that is cheap and reliable. The winners will have stronger economies. Losers like us will just get weaker.

Bessant also smashed another Albanese climate fantasy – that we should ban nuclear power and instead make solar panels to compete with China and become a “renewable energy superpower”.

Bessant cut the cant: “China will build 10 nuclear plants this year. That is not solar.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s pick as energy secretary, gas tycoon Chris Wright, said he’d back Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda and scrap the “green new scam” inhibiting America from producing oil, gas and coal.

“Energy is critical to human lives,” he said.

“President Trump shares my passion for energy. And if confirmed, I will work tirelessly to implement his bold agenda as an unabashed steward for all sources of affordable, reliable and secure American energy.”

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump ahead of his inaguration on Monday. Picture: Getty Images via AFP

Is Albanese listening? Are the Liberal MPs who still cling to our net-zero suicide strategy?

Here’s what will happen. Trump will unleash a cheap energy revolution which will cut power costs for American business.

In contrast, we’re even running short of gas and electricity thanks to our global warming lunacy.

So where do you think industries will invest? Here or there? Our soaring electricity cost has already wiped out our nickel industry.

But that wasn’t the only warning last week from Trump and his team.

Trump plainly means to create a revolution from day one. In fact, he’s already scared Israel and Hamas into a peace deal last week with his threat to make “all hell will break lose” if they didn’t sign.

That was a brutal reminder of a truth smaller powers like us prefer to dismiss as crude: the strong make the rules.

Trump will have no patience with countries which pretend kumbaya will defang China or Iran, and leave America to do the fighting for them. Like us.

US President-elect Donald Trump, pictured with wife Melania Trump, will be sworn in on Monday. Picture: AFP

Trump’s nominees are just as ultra-pragmatic.

Senator Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick as Secretary of State, told his own confirmation hearing China was the “most potent and dangerous” nation the US had ever faced.

Confrontation with China is coming. That will put huge pressure on Albanese’s “get along to get along” approach to the most powerful dictatorship the world has ever seen.

And here’s a final example of a Trump nominee giving Australia the big wakey-wakey – not just about how the world works, but how woke is now a national security risk that must go.

Pete Hegseth has been mocked by journalists as a bed-hopping, big-drinking Fox News host who never rose above the rank of major in the National Guard, yet will now be Trump’s Defense Secretary.

Yet Hegseth humiliated the Democrats who literally screeched at him in last week’s hearing, keeping his cool.

US Senator Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick as Secretary of State, told his own confirmation hearing China was the most “potent and dangerous” nation the US ever faced. Picture: AFP

Here’s one exchange, albeit with Republican Senator and former navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, which symbolises the massive cultural shift that Trump’s team represents even for Australia.

SHEEHY: How many genders are there? Tough one.

HEGSETH: Two …

SHEEHY: What is the diameter of the rifle round fired out of an M4A1 rifle?

HEGSETH: 5.56 …

SHEEHY: How many rounds of 5.56 can you fit into the magazine of an M4 rifle?

HEGSETH: Standard issue is 30.

SHEEHY: What size round is the M9 Beretta standard issue side-arm for the military fire?

HEGSETH: A 9mm …

SHEEHY: You understand what the warfighter deals with every single day on the battlefield … You have my support.

I know, running the US military takes much more sophisticated knowledge than that, but the basics are also essential. So is not being blinded by bull.

This Monday our world changes.