Donny who?
The love that dare not speak its name
Pauline's MAGA franchise reconsiders its marketing
If asphalt surfer Drunkerby Joyce is your voice of reason, if your longest serving Senator is a lilliputian conspiracy weirdo, if your pool of candidates and office holders includes Hitlerstans, stalkers, wife beaters, drink drivers, smack heads, pretend lawyers, fraudsters, disaffected Tory party rejects, anti-trans obsessives, homophobes, generic perps and flight risks, if a convicted rapist is who you chose to vet your candidates, and if your fan base has more quacks than a fraught duck then you are a shameless chancer, you are an unapologetic spruiker of snake oil and magical thinking who's in it for the grift. By predilection you are an avid Trump disciple.
Our hennaed harridan of hate, the WFH MAGA, has, despite the quavering delivery, been very clear in emphasising her adoration of Beelzeblubber. There are fewer damp patches on the bar stools at a Chippendales hen's night than there were in Pauline's knickers each time she went full girly gush about her orange demigod. She thought Trump was a selling point, a big plus for her "tell-it-like-it-is authenticity".
"If you admire the decisive actions and nationalist priorities of Donald Trump, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is the only party in Australia that mirrors these values."
"The actions of current U.S. President Donald Trump echo strongly with the principles and policies of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation."
"Trump’s orders dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives...We share Trump’s resolve to combat radical woke ideologies."
"Our economic policies align with Trump’s 'America First' ethos."
Drunkerby, however, is a bit more circumspect when it comes to endorsement of the bleached anal polyp Don Wan:
“And now, for President Trump, it was, I think, more sort of his unfortunate move towards a sort of grandiose position of himself....Unfortunately, President Trump, as much as I respect the process of democracy in the United States, became a little bit too much focused on President Trump.”
Drunkerby on News24 shortly after the U.S. midterms. He's more of a Joh Bjelke fan with a preference for homegrown, autocratic accused criminals.
The U.S. midterm elections dumped 10 years of bad juju on Donny, with the splatter reaching all the way to One Nation HQ. Quickly and quietly, all of the burbling enthusiasms for importing Trumpism were taken down from the ON web pages. A One Nation flunky told reporters the removal was part of a broader website overhaul—and Grandma Nasty has said nought publicly about Trump ever since.
Remember Trumpet of Patriots? Drive-thru buffet enthusiast Clive Palmer’s MAGA-adjacent futility cost him $60 million on ads and spam texts for zero seats in either house.
Qantas Chairman's Lounge habitue and champion of the disadvantaged voiceless Jacinta Name-Ya Price had a dose of foot-in-mouth disease with her DOGE-lite “make Australia great again” enthusiasms contributing to Spud Dutton's 2025 Temu-Trump taste testing - “the worst campaign the party has ever fought” according to a subsequent internal party report.
The purging of pro-Trump rhetoric is not a repudiation of Trumpism. Hanson will not have changed her mind on Trump. The affinity is real. The fandom isn't feigned. It just won't get openly trumpeted again.
Grumpy, you are spot on once again.
Every day Trump gets more bizarre. The workings and pronouncements of his administration are so crazy that they bring to mind the plot of a Marx Brothers movie. In fact Trump may be the long lost sixth Marx Brother, Fatso, the evil brother. Perhaps that makes Hanson the evil twin of Margaret Dumont.
Apologies to anyone finding these references too antique.