Jacinda Ardern has started to walk back the insults to Donald Trump made in front of her big mouthed luvvie mates.
Jack Tame impressed me yesterday morning with his questioning, and it has now made international media about her stupid ill-considered comments.
The New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has expressed regret over gossiping about a meeting with Donald Trump after it was reported the US president may have mistaken her for Justin Trudeau’s wife.
Ardern was visibly uncomfortable when asked about reports that she had revealed details of the encounter at the East Asia summit in Vietnam last week to a friend who later went public.
The friend – comedian Tom Sainsbury – revealed in a radio interview that Ardern had told her Trump was “not as orange in real life” and that he had been confused about her identity.
Sainsbury said: “[Ardern] said that Donald Trump was confused for a good amount of time in thinking that she was Justin Trudeau’s wife.”
Ardern, when questioned about this, said she did not want to turn the issue into a “diplomatic incident”, or discuss everything that occurred behind the scenes.
Yeah, then why did you?
Thought it was all shits and giggles with your lefty mates? What were you on? Coke?
Jeebus girl, you’re the Prime Minister.
But the prime minister, whose appearance at the high-profile summit was her first major international test since being elected, stressed that when she was formally introduced to Trump he seemed to know who she was.
“Second-hand someone observed that they thought that it happened, but in all my interaction, certainly President Trump didn’t seem to have confused me when I interacted with him. But someone else observed this,” Ardern said, explaining the incident.
Ardern would not reveal who the person was who observed the alleged case of mistaken identity, but said it was not someone in her team, nor was it a New Zealander.
Ardern said she had told the “full story” of the incident to two people in New Zealand, but would not budge when asked to share the full story with TVNZ host Jack Tame, who questioned her for six minutes on the topic.
Why not? Surely it is public interest? She attended the event as Prime Minsiter…she must answer OIA requests, surely? If Labour thought it was ok to ask if John Key texted me then surely we have a right to know who she has been gossiping to?
Ardern then said she would not make the same mistake of sharing a backstage “yarn” again – as Chinese whispers had brought the story to the attention of the media, which was not her intention.
Oh, so it was a mistake…how about calling up Trump and apologising?
“I’m in a circle, I am with someone else, I did not hear the full conversation, they observed what they believe to be mistaken identity, I didn’t pick that up. I then had an interaction that suggested he [Donald Trump] knew who I was, that was at the point where I was properly introduced which probably cleared it up.” Ardern said.
Tame continued pressing Ardern on whether she had told the full truth regarding the incident, or whether she had misled New Zealanders. Ardern responded: “Jack, at this point I don’t want to give away every single element of conversation I have with another world leader, because I accept that things happen behind the scenes, that I’m not always going to give the full details around.
“Tom’s a mate of mine. I shared a story with him, he shared it with someone else, I can see how that then spirals … it is a trifling matter.
“It was a bit of a funny yarn, something that I don’t want to cause a diplomatic incident over.
“I think I should never have recounted the story.” Ardern said.
You think? Stupid silly little socialist fool.
Insulting world leaders isn’t ever a trifling matter. If Donald Trump didn’t know who you were before he does now and he won’t be happy.
MFat must be beside themselves having to hose down the child PM’s stupid utterances all the time.
Want to know how bad it is? Try this on for size.
Does the Prime Minister stand by all her statements? She will have to answer yes, but will probably say, within the context they were made.
Then; Does the Prime Minister stand by her statement that “Donald Trump isn’t as orange in real life”?
Then; What context was the Prime Minister making that statement in when she insulted Donald Trump?
Yeah, Question time should be good, if the National party has the stones.
-The Guardian