The Trump-slapping of Australia’s taxpayer-funded lefty liars, shonks and no-hopers continues apace. Even the most Trump-deranged Australian couldn’t suppress a smirk when, last month, Donald Trump put a typical ABC ‘journalist’ firmly in his box. “You set a very bad tone. Quiet. Quiet,” Trump admonished, speaking for most of the country.
When, this week, he humiliated Kevin Rudd – who forgot the cardinal rule: no one, but no one, out-egos or out-arseholes The Donald – the smirks erupted into spontaneous laughter and clinking of glasses.
Then, Trump went for the trifecta, kicking another ABC journalist to the curb.
Donald Trump has told an Australian reporter she doesn’t know what she’s “talking about” and accused her of trying to oversimplify the politics surrounding the war in Ukraine in a brutal slapdown at the White House.
She’s an ABC journalist: of course she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Of course she prattles childishly simplified opinions about complex, dangerous events.
Even funnier, she’s not even a ‘proper’ ABC journalist, on the telly and all. Instead, she’s ‘writer-at-large’ for The Nightly, the ABC’s PDF-only newspaper, which sounds exactly like a poor excuse to bilk taxpayers to fund yet more cosy sinecures for the luvvie set.
The US president’s latest barb aimed at the Australian media came during a press conference in the cabinet room for Anthony Albanese’s first state visit when The Nightly’s “writer-at-large”, Latika M Bourke, asked him why he did not use his position to end the conflict “tomorrow”.
“You have within your power, you’re the most powerful man on Earth, why don’t you just enable Ukraine to finish this war tomorrow?” Bourke asked the president.
In other words, she wants him to keep pursuing the Biden policy of dumping US weapons on a Ukraine military that consistently uses them to lose.
Trump shot back: “Well, if you knew anything about what you were talking about, you’d be able to …”
“I do, I do,” Bourke said.
“You do?” Trump asked. “I don’t think you do, really. I don’t think you do. Because it’s a little more complicated than that, but it sounds easy.
“We’re in the process of trying to make a deal. If we make a deal that’s great, if we don’t make a deal, it’ll be a … a lot of people will be paying a big price.”
Just in case you thought Bourke isn’t an entitled luvvy living in a taxpayer-funded echo chamber, here she is complaining that she wasn’t kept in the lifestyle to which she’s become accustomed on a globe-trotting flight.
The Nightly’s “writer-at-large” Latika M Bourke has given a grumbling one-star review of her trip from New York to London on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government jet, complaining she was left “ravenous” after being served an “inedible” in-flight meal and was forced to sit in a 10-year-old economy seat.
The horror, the horror!
The one-time ABC social media reporter – who has handily co-opted her middle initial to differentiate herself from all the other Latika Bourkes plying their trade in the media – posted her scathing take-down of Air Albo after touching down at Stansted Airport in the Old Dart at the weekend.
Don’t they know who she is?
Seriously, did the flight crew not realise Bourke was from the nation’s favourite (if only) pdf newspaper? Next thing you know, she will be complaining there was no lounge access … oh wait, what’s this? “Check in process took nearly three hrs and was in a car park at 0600 in pouring rain. ie couldn’t work or charge or even have a drink or use a bathroom. I never thought BA (British Airways) was so good until now,” Bourke continued in her lengthy rant.
Spare us, you over-privileged bint. You’re flying around the world and the taxpayer is footing the bill.
Tell us again that the ABC aren’t out-of-touch, over-privileged twats.
