But Mr Trump had had enough and, despite Australia being one of the US’ staunchest allies, he cut their conversation short, the Post said.
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The deal to take around 1,250 refugees from Australia’s controversial Pacific Island detention network has come under intense scrutiny after Trump said he was “extremely, extremely upset” at the terms agreed with Australia by the former Obama administration. However, the conversation seems to have ended on a different point of view for Trump, who tweeted out Wednesday that he would be reviewing the deal.
“The very extensive engagement we have with the new administration underlines the closeness of the alliance”, Turnbull said.
Corker also said he called Hockey.
“We have to be tough”.
“Malcolm Turnbull’s going to be here in February so we’ll have plenty of opportunity to talk about it”, he said.
Yeah well it not so much the tough phone calls we’re anxious about buddy, it’s the fact that there’s a giant infant running the most powerful country in the world who does backflips on things he agreed to hours before. “It’s not going to happen anymore”.
“I don’t want these people”, he is quoted as saying. “As far as the call is concerned, the report that the president hung up is not correct”.
At the White House, Jon Decker, FOX News.
Last Friday, Mr Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning the entry of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
During the call, Mr Trump labelled the resettlement plan “the worst deal ever”, the paper reported. Others extended apologies to Australia on behalf of their President. “We’ve had very frank, very forthright discussions, in which each of us has expressed our views frankly as good friends should”. “I make Australia’s case as powerfully and persuasively as I can, wherever I am”, he said.
But later Wednesday night, Trump published a tweet suggesting that he will review the deal before committing to it.
In a statement put out after the phone call with Peña Nieto, the White House did not address Trump’s exact words but conceded that the two leaders acknowledged their “clear and very public differences”.
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The deal was agreed late a year ago between Australia, which has fought alongside United States troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the administration of former President Barack Obama. The issue has dominated Australian news, sparking commentary over relations between the two countries with Trump in the presidency.
