Former prime minister Scott Morrison has spent New Year’s Eve in a surprising spot – at Donald Trump’s party at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
Morrison posted a picture on X of himself and his wife Jenny with Trump and his wife Melania at the event at Trump’s lavish home.
The post, which features the men in tuxedos, was captioned “HNY 2025 from Mar-a-Lago”.
Trump and Morrison’s friendship goes back to September 2019, when they were prime minister and president.
Their meetings included Morrison attending the US state dinner in 2019.
After both left office, they met for a private chat at Trump Tower in New York in 2024, where the former US president backed the AUKUS submarine agreement.
At that time Morrison indicated he backed Trump, who was undergoing his hush money trial, for which he was found guilty.
“It was nice to catch up again, especially given the pile on he is currently dealing with in the US,” Morrison said.
This week a federal appeals court upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
Mar-a-Largo sits on almost 7 hectares of land in Palm Beach, Florida.
It spans 126 rooms and 5800 square metres.
Trump will return to office to become the 47th president of the US on January 20.
