In Australia, we have the farcical Clive Palmer, a mining billionaire.

Palmer founded and chaired the United Australia Party, whose party slogan was “Make Australia Great,” which has recently deregistered (again!) and has effectively re-formed as the Trumpet of Patriots party. The UAP has a total of one seat in the parliament’s upper house, no seats in the lower house, and one seat in three different local governments across the country (there are over 500 local govs) - which would be less embarrassing if they hadn’t spent 123 million AUD (over 75 million USD) on the last federal election alone. They’re most well know for their obnoxious and expensive advertising campaigns, which clearly aren’t enough. Recent newspaper example. [heads up: gender binary propaganda]

Palmer, unlike Trump, wasn’t a media personality, lacks charisma and doesn’t appear to have the same establishment support that Trump had, only companies taking their money for ad spots. Unless you’re an absolute cooker who looks at Trump and says ‘that’s what we need!’ (rare over here, even before the recent isolationism), Palmer is a joke flushing money down the loo.

Dishonourable mention: the Western Australia independent senator who legally changed their name to Austin “Aussie” Trump as “a political protest”.

Originally a Labor MLC, Mr Trump was expelled from the party after pleading guilty to 35 breaches of a domestic violence restraining order, related to his former partner.

He switched to One Nation and had been tapped to lead their Legislative Council ticket, only for party leader Pauline Hanson to dump him from the role.