Cook says ‘you’ve got to have one unprofessional moment’ as description wins applause at pre-election event

The Western Australian premier, Roger Cook, has apologised after calling the US vice-president, JD Vance, a “knob” at a pre-election event in Perth.

At the West Australian’s Leadership Matters event on Tuesday morning, at which Cook was the guest speaker, a journalist asked the premier to finish the sentence: “JD Vance is a …” Cook replied: “Knob.”

Cook then said: “You’ve got to have one unprofessional moment, don’t you? That was it.”

His description won him laughs and a round of applause from the audience.

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    For context, this guy is the current state premier, similar to a US state governor I guess.

    He is from our Labor party which is centre-left. In the last election the Labor party won 53 out of 59 seats. His party had overwhelming support at that time.

    Of course the pendulum will swing back to the right at the upcoming election on Saturday, but I don’t think it will swing far enough for the conservatives to form government.