Trump Angered to Learn Australian Ambassador Criticized Him: ‘I Don’t Like You Either’

President Donald Trump took questions from reporters at the White House on Monday while meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, including a loaded one about his view of Albanese’s government.

“Have you had any concerns with this administration, with its stance on Palestine, climate change, or even things the ambassador said about you in the past—the Australian ambassador?” asked one reporter.

“I don’t know anything about him. I mean, if he said bad things, then maybe he’d like to apologize. I really don’t know. Did an ambassador say something bad about me? Don’t tell me. I don’t—where is he? Is he still working for you?” Trump said to laughter.
Albanese replied, “He’s there, yeah.”

Trump then asked Ambassador Kevin Rudd, “You said bad things?”

Rudd replied, “Before I took this position, Mr. President, but—”

Trump then took a more serious tone and jabbed, “I don’t like you either.”

“I don’t, and I probably never will. Go ahead. Go ahead,” Trump continued stone faced, while Albanese tried to laugh it off with a smile.

Rudd deleted old tweets criticizing Trump after he was reelected to a second term. Some of the tweets had called Trump a “traitor to the West” and the “most destructive president in history,” reported Australian media, which noted Rudd’s old “comments loom large over Albanese’s meeting with Trump.”

Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.