Coalition Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price so didn’t mean to utter her Trumpian “make Australia great again” comment on Saturday that she quickly stated that she didn’t even realise she had said it.
Coalition Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price poses in a MAGA cap with her husband Colin Lillie in this Yuletide snap taken from her social media page.
And her boss, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton immediately downplayed the line, a theme Coalition MPs resolutely stuck to over the weekend with rictus grins as they tried to mop up the campaign snafu.
So it must have come as a great surprise to all of them – and particularly Price herself – when a yuletide selfie began circulating on Sunday morning of Price herself wearing … none other than a Make America Great Again cap.
It was on Saturday standing in front of Dutton, Price said: “We have incredible candidates right around the country that I’m so proud to be able to stand beside to ensure that we can make Australia great again, that we can bring Australia back to its former glory, that we can get Australia back on track.”
After that, nothing else mattered.
Commentators later said they could almost see the panic in Dutton’s eyes as the oxygen was immediately sucked out of the Mount Pleasant Bowling Club in Perth.
Things weren’t very pleasant after that.
Intense media interest (well, you can hardly blame us), later resulted in Price’s own surprise that she had aped US President Donald Trump’s (in)famous slogan.
“Did I say that?” she asked at one point.
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