What is embarrassing is not the opposition walking out on the "Trump-like" Budget 2017 speech, but the ruling party remaining silent over Malaysia's soiled reputation as the target of the US' biggest kleptocracy case in its history.

Gelang Patah MP Lim Kit Siang said Prime Minster Najib Razak and his Umno leaders' outcry over the opposition walkout last week paled in comparison to the damage the country was facing to its reputation over the growing 1MDB scandal.