PM’s Selfie Diplomacy Backfires

Donald Trump has slapped massive tariffs on Australian pharmaceuticals, despite getting a selfie with Albo earlier in the week.

Labor HQ must look like the aftermath of a kids’ birthday party where the cake collapsed.

The Prime Minster’s advisors would have been delighted after the Prime Minister bumped into Trump at a Manhattan cocktail party and managed to get a pic for Instagram.

A grinning Albanese posed with the US President as if selfies and international diplomacy were the exact same thing.

“Increase Australia’s defence spending? Nah. But wow this lighting is good.”

Now we discover, selfies are not statesmanship.

They’re just, well, selfies.

It’s a photo filter for Trump, a fiscal migrant for Albanese …