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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Van Badham

The impact of Trump 2.0 on Australia is evidence of how American we suddenly aren’t

‘Anthony Albanese (right) finds himself weeks out from an election navigating the capricious behaviour of the nuclear-armed chaotic dickhead Americans re-elected as their president,’ writes Van Badham about Donald Trump.
‘Anthony Albanese (right) finds himself weeks out from an election navigating the capricious behaviour of the nuclear-armed chaotic dickhead Americans re-elected as their president,’ writes Van Badham about Donald Trump. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Australians have found the behaviour of our American cousins challenging of late. Cultural differences yawn as wide as the Pacific between us. We were not sad to see “the baby wombat grabber” go.

The first mistake made by Montana-based tourist Sam Jones, Online Influencer, was to snatch a joey from its mother at night. Her second mistake was to sway the frightened creature in front of some gormless chucklehead who filmed her – giggling – and to upload the footage to the internet.

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