‘Sign the extension, you crazy bastards’: Premier goes ‘full Donald’ at Gather Round

April 9, 2026 — 1:50pm

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South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas took a new tack on Wednesday night. Tired of not getting traction in his campaign to the AFL for a long extension to Gather Round in his state, he pivoted in his negotiating tactic.

He invoked “The Donald”.

Encouraged by the apparent success of the powdery president’s potty-mouthed braggadocio as he pushed for a ceasefire in a war he started, Malinauskas figured that if something as serious as world peace could be influenced by crude diplomacy, then why not something as relatively inconsequential as football? So he went full Donald.

Besides, Trump is the greatest negotiator the world has ever seen. Just ask him.

So at the Gather Round welcome dinner in the genteel environs of Penfolds’ Magill Estate, in an ornate dining pavilion erected just for the weekend, over a starter of wagyu tataki with ernabella radishes and mustard and with some heavy lifting by the Bin 389 cabernet shiraz, Malinauskas went MAGA.

“I was thinking this afternoon of the........

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