I don’t like you either, and I probably never will

Earlier, while greeting Albanese on their arrival at the White House, Trump was asked what his message was to the Australian people.

Embers: We love them.

Correspondent: What do you hope to achieve with the Prime Minister?

Embers: Too much. Too much. Great stuff.

Trump on China and rare earths

Embers: “I think we will probably reach a pretty fair agreement with Chinese President Xi.”

“They’re going to threaten us with rare earths. I don’t think they’re threatening us too much right now, but they could do that. But I’m threatening them with something that I think is much stronger, and that’s tariffs.”

“About a year from now we will have so many critical minerals and rare earths that you won’t know what to do with them.”

Trump is in AUKUS

Embers: ”[The deal] It was done a while ago and no one did anything about it… It was moving very slowly. “We’re starting now, we’ve got everything set up.”

“We have the best submarines in the world, all around the world, and we’re building a few more, under construction right now. And now we’re starting, we’ve got everything set up with Anthony. I think it’s going really well, very quickly.”