How Joe Hockey remade himself into Australia's Trump-whisperer

Together Hockey and Turnbull decided to approach Trump as they would a famous late Australian media mogul.

"He is verbal, visual, he's not a technocrat, there is a lot of gut instinct there. And Kerry Packer respected you more if you were honest and frank without being sycophantic. It's the same with Trump." Mulvaney had met Hockey through his work spruiking an Australia-style asset recycling scheme. The pair hit it off.

Mulvaney says Hockey's gregarious manner has helped him form relationships with senior figures in Washington that are not available to most ambassadors. "When we were going through the analysis here on the tariffs Joe had the ability to pick up the phone, call people at every level of government and have a direct conversation with them. If, say, the Malaysian ambassador had called me and said 'xyz' I wouldn't know who that was. It would be a different type of conversation. The flow of information is what good diplomacy is about. It was a highlight of his service here.

MattKnott Basically driven into exile after delivering undoubtably the worst budget/speech in the last 30 years. Now Hockey is racking up incredible personal wealth at the tax payers expense. What a joke!

MattKnott What a load of bull sit

MattKnott Failed treasurer completely unqualified for this job...

MattKnott Smarmy.

MattKnott Take the quiz. Things I would rather do than read 1500 fawning words about JoeHockey in the

MattKnott Wow, and that is a claim to fame? That wont age well. Like so many other things on his CV. WorstTreasurerEver SloppyJoe

MattKnott Hockey & Trump: peas in the pod of wind turbine loathing.

MattKnott Self serving opportunist, never forget the smoking cigar dishing out brutalist pain the lifters and leanest. Grub!

MattKnott about the same size and IQ/EQ level

MattKnott DT: how tasty are those big mac meals flavoured by bushfires? JH: pretty damn fine. Wanna get a delivery? Oh, and let's get a couple of bottles of wine. They won't be producing for another 10 years!

MattKnott I just threw up in my mouth

MattKnott What a load of LNP Twaddle

MattKnott How much of this is factual, and how much hypothetical? Dazzle me with percentages 😐

MattKnott I would have liked him to spit in Trumps face.

MattKnott 🤮

MattKnott Pathetic

MattKnott What a claim to fame that’s going to turn out to be.

MattKnott Useless Treasurer

MattKnott How would this bloke know anything about the bushfires? He's like that Downer character, neither of them are interested in Australia.

MattKnott And what about asking him about Hello World, or that wasn't on the LNP approved list.

MattKnott Hockey is as sleazy as Trump.

MattKnott KnottMatthew

MattKnott I think you’ve tagged the wrong Matt Knott....

MattKnott JoeHockey has always been a ‘yes’ man, with zero original thought. No wonder he loves Trump and is wowed easily by PR BS spin covering up mediocrity at best, criminality at most realistic. Worst Treasurer in Australian history who helped to double Australia’s debt. GoodRiddance

MattKnott he is staying in DC as a hired mercenary for few banks

MattKnott Yuk!

MattKnott This on pork barrelling day 🤥

MattKnott What a blight on Australia this taker, this leaner, is. Disgusting human being!

MattKnott Amazing story.

MattKnott Climate criminals , they should be both in prison .

MattKnott Cut from the same cloth

MattKnott How long till 'Fat Cigar Smocking Joe' (sic) is trapped in realDonaldTrump web of lies and crimes?

MattKnott The media report Trump in a negative light everyday...yet he’s actually quite a nice and approachable business man. Shocker.

MattKnott It’s not exactly a niche market to speak Idiot fluently

MattKnott Bullshit, they think he's a twit - they just humour him

MattKnott Lousy Treasurer but a good diplomate.

MattKnott Australia can only benefit 👍🏻

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