Ralph Babet (Victoria, United Australia Party) Share this | Hansard source

How infected by Trump derangement syndrome must some in this place be when they want to spend valuable time not debating the important issues but arguing that a democratically elected president is a danger to Australia and to the world. Well, let's have the argument.

President Trump has insisted that there are only two genders—male and female. Well, he's right. Is this a threat to the cosmos, or is this basic common sense affirmed by biology? President Trump has insisted that sovereign nations must secure their borders. Is this a threat to the free world? If I were to visit any of the homes of the woke Left of this country tonight, would I find their front doors wide open so anyone can come through? Of course not. They double-lock their front doors while bleating on about secure national borders being immoral.

What has President Trump done? He's promised to crack down on government waste. Imagine a world where faceless, nameless bureaucrats are held accountable! 'But President Trump is a danger to the free world,' they will still screech. Is ending the Left's obsession with DEI in the military a danger? I would have thought that prioritising niche sexual fetishes in the military over strength and competence would have been considered the real danger.

The Left's hysterics over President Trump only demonstrate how dangerous the Left really are to the world and to democracy. They complain about President Trump being a populist. What's wrong with that? What is populism? It's doing what the majority of people want you to do; that's populism. When the Left complain that Trump is a populist, they're really just admitting that their own policies and their own ideas are so extreme and so nonsensical that nobody wants them. Then they claim that their lack of popularity is a virtue somehow. It would be hilarious if it weren't so silly.

Donald Trump is not a threat to Australia—he's not. He's only a threat to the progressive Left in Australia and all across the world. Those people are trashing this great country and their own, wherever they might be, with their extreme ideas that nobody wants, nobody believes and nobody can afford. Do you know what Donald Trump is? He's exactly what the world needs; that's what he is.