Anthony Albanese is fast becoming that clingy ex who keeps “accidentally” showing up at your favourite cafés and muttering about “bumping into each other like old times.”
The object of our PM’s increasingly tragic attention isn’t an old flame - it’s Donald J. Trump.
Having been ghosted at the G7, where Trump departed without letting him know their planned 20-minute coffee date had been cancelled, our Prime Minister is now desperately planning to “run into” the US president at the NATO summit in The Hague next week.
Technically, Australia has nothing to do with NATO, which is why Albanese skipped their last meeting.
But he’ll be there this time, hanging out in the corridors, hoping that if he loiters around the conference centre long enough, Trump might pop out for a hotdog and a handshake.
It’s all a bit creepy …
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