He said horrible things about the president. Called him an idiot. Said he was reprehensible.

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"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," he wrote on Facebook in a private message that became famously public.

He's not Kevin Rudd; he's Donald Trump's vice-president.

JD Vance not only survived, he thrived under Trump. Which makes all the hyperventilation about Rudd's ambassadorship after Trump's barb at US ambassador Kevin Rudd during the joint press conference in Washington look like pointless straw clutching.

Off-camera, Ru

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