How could Rudd ask Trump for favours for Australia after smearing him around the world?

It’s time for Kevin Rudd to pack his bags and get ready to say goodbye to his lovely taxpayer-funded job as our ambassador in Washington.

Kevin Rudd, get ready to pack your bags. Because bad news: Donald Trump just had another win in his cruise to the White House.

So get ready to say goodbye, Kevin, to your lovely taxpayer-funded job as our ambassador in Washington.

See, with each step Trump takes to becoming president again at the November elections – and polls say he’d beat doddery incumbent Joe Biden – the closer Rudd must be to getting sacked for his vicious tongue, abusing Trump as a madman and traitor.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be embarrassed, too.

Donald Trump just had another win in his cruise to the White House. Picture: AFP

He was foolish enough to give his mate this ambassador’s job, over the objections of Foreign Minister Penny Wong.

Ouch. Albanese cried when his Labor colleagues dumped Rudd as PM, and there may be more tears in November.

Here’s the problem with Ambassador Rudd if Trump really does become president again.

How could Rudd ask Trump for favours for Australia when that sensitive boaster will know how freely Rudd has smeared him around the world?

Anthony Albanese was foolish enough to give his mate Kevin Rudd the ambassador’s job. Picture: Getty

Here are some of Rudd’s frenzied character assassinations of Trump in the years before he was appointed ambassador and belatedly realised – oops – he’d better shut up.

Trump “is a traitor to the West’’.

Trump is “the most destructive president in history”.

Trump “drags America and democracy through the mud”.

Trump “abuses Christianity, church and bible to justify violence”.

And this sneer, on the ABC, to the audience’s cheers: “I think the general consensus amongst anyone concerned with a public policy process, domestic or international, thinks he’s nuts.”

There are actually two problems with all this.

The first, of course, is that a president Trump is hardly likely to come to the phone or rearrange his schedule to take a call from a man who’s vilified him like that.

Nor is he likely to share confidences with Rudd, who he’d consider a viper.

There’ll be no invitations for rounds of the golf course, as there was for the hail-fellow Joe Hockey, when he was ambassador.

The other problem is Rudd’s lousy judgment.

Fancy writing off Trump as a violent nutter and wrecker who was finished. That’s a serious underestimation.

No, Trump’s rise must mean Rudd’s fall.

What a bad call by Albanese, appointing this joker.

But then what? Would he dare sack Rudd, come the day, when he’s seen how his mate can savage even colleagues he reckons done him wrong?