We’re only a few weeks into the Scott Morrison Prime Ministership and it’s already been something of a rollercoaster ride.
There was that throwing transgender kids under the bus thing, the being unable to explain why he’s PM thing, and most recently, that whole Fatman Scoop Twitter thing.
All of this actually reminds me of the hurricane of chaos that hit America when Donald Trump was sworn in as POTUS, something that’s not unlike Hurricane Florence currently smashing North and South Carolina.
Turns out there’s a simple explanation why all this Trump-like chaos seemed to have followed Morrison as soon as he became PM: he admires Trump as a world leader.
In a new piece from The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, Morrison says he admires Trump as a leader who is “very practical” who isn’t going to “waste a day” in the office.
While he concedes that he is “rubbish” at golf and probably won’t be invited to play 18 holes with Trump anytime soon, Morrison says that he and the orange-faced POTUS share the same understanding about how some people have been “left behind” due to globalisation.
And that’s what we get. The president gets that. I get it.
No, Scott, you don’t get it at all.
It’s not a particularly reassuring sign when the leader of your country is brown-nosing the most divisive and downright moronic POTUS in history..
But maybe all is not lost for ol’ ScoMo.
Eagle-eyed folk have noticed that he was wearing an Australian flap lapel pin during a recent parliament session. However, he was wearing it upside down, which is an internationally recognised distress signal.
it is a nationally agreed sign that an upside down Australian flag is a distress call pic.twitter.com/xqOcxEFQWe
— Eliza Berlage (@verbaliza) September 17, 2018
Perhaps he immediately realised that buddying up with Trump is akin to getting into a lion’s den while dressed in Lady Gaga’s meat dress and is desperately trying to extract himself from the hole he’s gotten in.
Or he probably just wore it upside down because he’s just not that on top of things, which in that case please let stop the boat right now because we’d like to get off.