“We will meet when we meet,” Albanese told the ABC last week. “I’ll be talking with him there,” Albanese told Channel Seven’s Sunrise program on Monday. Albanese and Australian ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd in Seattle in June. Before becoming US ambassador, Rudd described Trump as “nuts”, called him “the most destructive president in history” and named him a “traitor to the West”. “Whatever influence Rudd has, it hasn’t resulted in a leaders’ meeting,” he said.