US EditionRudd’s Golf Club Meeting with Trump Revealed
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, JUL 10 – Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed a diplomatic cable followed the January meeting between Ambassador Kevin Rudd and President Trump.
- On January 11, 2025, Australia’s ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, held a brief meeting with President Donald Trump at the president’s golf club located in West Palm Beach, Florida.
- The informal meeting took place after the originally scheduled encounter at the Group of Seven summit was canceled when Trump departed ahead of time to supervise a US military operation targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
- Australia’s foreign ministry confirmed that a meeting took place and issued a diplomatic cable outlining the discussion, highlighting Rudd’s interactions with senior officials in the US administration.
- Australia is subject to tariffs of 50 percent on steel, 25 percent on aluminium, and 10 percent on various other products, while the US has warned it may impose tariffs as high as 200 percent on pharmaceutical exports worth $2 billion in 2024.
- Coalition figures criticized the government’s secrecy about the meeting and questioned Rudd’s effectiveness amid ongoing economic and defence challenges facing Australia.
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