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Flat White

Performative diplomacy?

5 May 2025

10:54 AM

5 May 2025

10:54 AM

Australia’s greatest ever political strategist, Mark Textor, recently said to me: ‘People say that Donald Trump is erratic and unpredictable. That’s wrong. In fact, he does the same thing in every situation: disrupt and then deal.’

Textor, who at one point was advising the Prime Ministers of four countries at once, is unsurprisingly and very much on to something.

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