Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has picked up plenty of national endorsements, and now it seems the Trump Train is going international.
After his major foreign policy speech last week, Trump picked up an endorsement from former Australian Labour Party leader Mark Latham, best known as one of Australia’s top outsider politicians.
In a column for Australia’s Daily Telegraph, Latham said that Trump’s foreign policy “is in our national interest.”
“In trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump as the Republican front-runner, the so-called experts have been clueless,” Latham’s column began.
“Every time they have declared Trump as having ‘imploded’ electorally — whether it was from his policy to build a wall on the Mexican border or ban Muslim migration or attack the media as ‘lying, disgusting people’ — The Donald’s support has continued to grow.”
“For the past quarter of a century, under the 24-hour news cycle, whenever a non-politician, a genuine outsider, has stood for elected office, the media have jumped all over their novelty value, depicting them as some kind of freak show,” he continued.
“If their policies have been anywhere to the right of Che Guevara, the elites have labelled them ‘racist’, ‘sexist” and ‘fascist’. In Trump’s case, he has also been depicted as ‘vulgar’, someone too common, too plain-speaking, too rude to be seriously considered for high office.”
Latham said that “Trump only has one face: an energetic, bombastic talking machine who speaks frankly about the things he believes in.
“The Donald is by no means perfect but I much prefer his approach to the lying snakes of machine politics and media manipulation.”
And so does America, which is why he’s done so well in the polls.
Latham was a controversial Labour leader between 2003 and 2005, often showing the same bombastic style and disregard for political correctness. Sounds as if like recognizes like.
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