Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese should be scared after Donald Trump’s thumping win

Donald Trump’s garbage truck cleaned up Kamala Harris and is now coming for Anthony Albanese.

Donald Trump’s garbage truck cleaned up Kamala Harris and is now coming for Anthony Albanese.

Albanese said seven years ago that Trump made him “s--t scared”, and we’re about to see just why.

Now that Trump has been elected president, our Prime Minister has three more big fights on his hands, and each a loser for him: climate, free speech and ... Kevin Rudd.

That’s on top of his most obvious embarrassment: that Trump won by campaigning hardest on the issues killing Albanese too – the cost-of-living crisis, immigration and the Left’s bullyboy woke agenda.

Those issues already have Albanese on the ropes. Australians have become poorer under his government thanks to inflation, and have also been dealt a housing crisis from his insane immigration intake.

Meanwhile, they’ve seen Albanese preoccupied with his disastrous woke campaign for the Voice.

But Trump’s triumph doesn’t just hurt Albanese by highlighting the issues that make him so beatable.

Donald Trump won on issues that are hurting Anthony Albanese. Picture: Rebecca Nobl

For one, he’s now got a fight he did not need on his manic global warming policies that have already helped make our electricity so expensive.

Trump, in contrast, has promised to end the “green new scam” by slashing spending on climate programs, boosting oil and gas exploration, pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement on cutting emissions, and opposing the wind farms he calls “bulls--t” and “a bird graveyard”.

Albanese, seemingly caught on the hop, was in denial last Friday about what this would mean at next week’s Brazil meeting of the G20 economies.

“I am convinced that the G20, like other international forums I’ve been in, will overwhelmingly be focused on climate action, because the whole world is moving in this direction,” he babbled.

This is now utter nonsense. Not even half the world – by emissions – will be “moving in this direction” once Trump is sworn in.

At the G20 will be China, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, and India, the third. Both are free under the Paris Agreement to vastly increase their emissions, and have.

Add America, under Trump, and you have three countries responsible for more than half the world’s emissions saying they’re not obliged to cut them.

You could also add Germany, whose finance minister was sacked last week after declaring his country’s economy was in such a mess it had to dump its own jobs-killing emission targets.

Trump supporters in New York. Picture: Getty Images

Yet there’s Albanese, still trying to make Australia set a useless example to nobody who cares by spending billions on green schemes that are already failing or making our electricity too expensive for business.

Worse for Albanese is that defending his net-zero policies will show how astonishingly little he knows about the climate science that he claims justifies them.

For instance, just last Friday he protested there were “more floods and more bushfires and more cyclones”.

In fact, our Bureau of Meteorology shows we’re getting fewer cyclones, not more; we haven’t had a bad fire season for nearly five years, and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted in 2021 “confidence is in general low in attributing changes in the probability of magnitude of flood events to human influence”.

Here’s another battle Trump is forcing on a woefully unprepared Albanese: free speech.

Notice how Trump included Elon Musk in a celebratory picture of the Trump clan on election day?

Trump is not a Musk fan just because the world’s richest man campaigned for him. He’s also a free speech fan who completely supports Musk’s fight against governments trying to censor “misinformation” on his social media platform, X.

Trump himself promised “to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called ‘mis-’ and ‘dis-information’.”

Trump’s pick as vice president, JD Vance, even declared: “It is insane that we would support a military alliance if that military alliance isn’t going to be pro free speech.”

Donald Trump’s victory should have Anthony Albanese worried.

Vance meant European countries in NATO, but his comments apply to Australia, too, which desperately needs Trump to back our deal to buy some of its nuclear submarines.

Yet Musk has meanwhile attacked Albanese’s government as “fascists” for its “misinformation” Bill that could fine social media companies up to 5 per cent of their annual turnover for not stopping what a government-appointed body claims are falsehoods.

Albanese’s law, passed just last week in the House of Representatives in an appalling piece of timing, is an attack on free speech that many Australians already hate and Musk can now fight with the help of America’s next president.

Normally, Albanese could expect our ambassador to sweet-talk a new president into going easy on us, but here he runs smack into the third big headache now Trump is elected.

It was Albanese’s own dumb decision to appoint Kevin Rudd, his mate and former boss as prime minister, as ambassador, despite Rudd having once called Trump “the most destructive president in history”, claiming he “drags America and democracy through the mud” and “abuses Christianity, church and bible to justify violence”.

It was only when Trump won last week’s election that Rudd removed that abuse from his social media, “to eliminate the possibility of such comments being misconstrued as reflecting his positions as ambassador and, by extension, the views of the Australian government”.

If Rudd thought those posts could damage our relationship with the US, why wait until the election to remove them? It seems Rudd had so little insight into America that he never believed Trump could win.

So Rudd fails in both key ambassadorial roles: to charm the government he’s sent to, and to tell his government back home what’s really going on.

Lara Trump, Donald’s daughter-in-law and head of the Republic National Committee, suggested we replace Rudd, since “it’s kind of hard to have a position like that where you’d want to keep someone who said such nasty things about a person”.

But, again, Albanese is on the defensive. He says Rudd will stay, claiming he’s done a “terrific” job.

Rudd must now prove it by trying to clean up the excrement that’s all over Albanese – more than our Prime Minister ever predicted from Trump seven years ago.