President Donald Trump had a blunt assessment of an Australian official on Monday, Oct. 20 Trump was meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to strike a deal on rare earth minerals, but it was another politician who drew his ire. Seated across the table from Trump and Albanese was Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is now the Aussie ambassador to the U.S. Rudd has frequently been critical of Trump in the press. He called the president a “quack apothecary” for promoting unproven cures during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the world had seen "what "America First' means in practice: don’t look to the United States for help in a genuine global crisis, because it can’t even look after itself."
