Malcolm Turnbull
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659 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Jun
Malcolm Turnbull’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And because I'd stood up to him and because he's a bully, he respected that.
And after that, the relationship went very well.
Because the thing about Trump is that if you suck up to him, which is what most people stupidly do, you will just get more bullying.
The only way to deal with a guy is to stand your ground.
And if you don't do that, frankly, if you're a leader and you're not prepared to do that,
you should give the job away to someone else who can.
Well, yeah, term two, it's the same guy.
He's obviously older.
The big difference is in term one, he didn't expect to win.
He wasn't prepared.
He didn't have a plan.
And he had people working for him in the White House, many of whom were very good.
and they would routinely tell him not to do things or seek to steer him in more conventional channels.
And everyone in the world pretty much expected that would work.
I mean, I remember Xi Jinping and I talked about Trump
after he'd won the election, but before he was in office.
And President Xi was quite relaxed about him.
He thought he would be sort of institutionalised by the machinery of government.
Anyway, naturally that didn't work.
Second time around, very different.
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