No ‘G’day, mate’: On call with Australian prime minister, Trump badgers and brags [TURNBULL DENIES HANG UP]

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-gday-mate-on-call-with-australian-pm-trump-badgers-and-brags/2017/02/01/88a3bfb0-e8bf-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?utm_term=.9ad02289beae&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-world%252Bnation

edited by Mod2 to reflect subsequent headline

[Frank Cannon]

Editor’s note: This article has been updated and a reference to an AP report on the details of a phone conversation between President Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto removed because it could not be independently confirmed.

Curious how much more of this article is bullshit since they already are admitting they published garbage without named sources?

[Norm Lenhart]

1: Aus was foolish for making a deal with Obama. Never trust a liberal.

2: Obama intentionally did not vet them to dump them into the next prez' lap.

3: The UN engineered the shutdown of the PNG site to force western nations to 'mainland' these muslims.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Donald Trump has blasted as 'dumb' a refugee deal between Australia and the United States, but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is confident the president won't backflip on their agreement. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/international/2017/02/02/turnbull-denies-trump--hang-up-.html#sthash.auNI5Gmv.dpuf



http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/international/2017/02/02/turnbull-denies-trump--hang-up-.html

[mountaineer]

YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A DICKHEAD, MALCOLM
... maybe you should just retire and enjoy your harbourside mansion
by Larry Pickering
Thu 2 Feb 2017 05:00:28 pm

There has been little joy in the Liberal Party lately and Turnbull has just given Shorten a free kick with another case of massive misjudgment equal only to Gillard’s and Rudd’s.

Turnbull had clearly decided that Hillary Clinton would win the US election, thus the fawning selfies with Obama and trusting his deal that over 1200 of Australia’s illegal arrivals from Iraq, Iran and Syria would be accepted by the US under Hillary.

Trump’s extreme vetting will now be more extreme regarding those 1250, and many of them have already demonstrated that they have no intention to settle in the US and therefore when asked if they intend to bomb the White House, their answers will be, “yes sir, you bet”, making Trump's decision an easy one for him and an embarrassing one for Turnbull.

Of the rest, Trump will not be admitting very many, leaving Oz with exactly the same problem. Turnbull’s US deal prematurely arranged with Obama is now in tatters when Australia should have been king of the kids when, thanks to Abbott, it came to stemming the tide of illegal immigrants.  ...  Rest of commentary from an Australian perspective

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I wish whoever merged this would've kept my headline in which I point out that this story was fake.

[Frank Cannon]

I wish whoever merged this would've kept my headline in which I point out that this story was fake.

Didn't you hear? MOD 18 has it out for you dude. Watch your back.

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST

URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-gday-mate-on-call-with-australian-pm-trump-badgers-and-brags/2017/02/01/88a3bfb0-e8bf-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?utm_term=.1af7cd4b24d4

By Greg Miller and Philip Rucker


It should have been one of the most congenial calls for the new commander in chief — a conversation with the leader of Australia, one of America’s staunchest allies, at the end of a triumphant week.

Instead, President Trump blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refu­gee agreement and boasted about the magnitude of his electoral college win, according to senior U.S. officials briefed on the Saturday exchange. Then, 25 minutes into what was expected to be an hour-long call, Trump abruptly ended it.

At one point, Trump informed Turnbull that he had spoken with four other world leaders that day — including Russian President Vladi­mir Putin — and that “this was the worst call by far.”

Trump’s behavior suggests that he is capable of subjecting world leaders, including close allies, to a version of the vitriol he frequently employs against political adversaries and news organizations in speeches and on Twitter.

“This is the worst deal ever,” Trump fumed as Turnbull attempted to confirm that the United States would honor its pledge to take in 1,250 refugees from an Australian detention center.

Trump, who one day earlier had signed an executive order temporarily barring the admission of refugees, complained that he was “going to get killed” politically and accused Australia of seeking to export the “next Boston bombers.”

Trump returned to the topic late Wednesday night, writing in a message on Twitter: “Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!”

U.S. officials said that Trump has behaved similarly in conversations with leaders of other countries, including Mexico. But his treatment of Turnbull was particularly striking because of the tight bond between the United States and Australia — countries that share intelligence, support one another diplomatically and have fought together in wars including in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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[Mod2]

Multiple threads have been merged.

[SirLinksALot]

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/international/2017/02/02/turnbull-denies-trump--hang-up-.html

Turnbull denies Trump 'hang up'

Donald Trump has blasted as 'dumb' a refugee deal between Australia and the United States, but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is confident the president won't backflip on their agreement.

An explosive tweet from Mr Trump has once again cast doubt on the deal, in which the US would take refugees currently held on Manus Island and Nauru in return for Australia accepting refugees from Central America.

'Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!' the US president tweeted on Thursday.

Mr Turnbull said despite the president's tweet, he had received multiple assurances from Mr Trump, his press secretary and the US embassy the deal would be progressed.

'This is not a deal that he would've done or that he would regard as a good deal,' Mr Turnbull told Fairfax radio.

'But the question is, will he commit to honour the deal? And he has given that commitment.'

The prime minister wouldn't tell Sydney radio Macquarie Radio whether Mr Trump had labelled the deal dumb or otherwise in their phone conversation on Sunday, but has denied reports the call ended abruptly or in anger.

'I want to make one observation about it, the report the president hung up is not correct, the call ended courteously,' he said.

The US president reportedly told Mr Turnbull he was 'going to get killed' politically and accused Australia of seeking to export the 'next Boston bombers', according to senior US officials quoted by The Washington Post.

Mr Turnbull said the deal with the former president was always for the Americans to use their own vetting processes and determine how many of the people on Nauru and Manus Island would be resettled.

'It wasn't a commitment to take everybody sight unseen,' he said.

'It is possible they could take a smaller number or a larger number - it will depend on the assessments.'

Mr Trump's tweet also contradicted a statement issued by a US embassy spokesperson in Canberra just hours earlier in response to conflicting reports from the White House and US State Department.

'President Trump's decision to honour the refugee agreement has not changed and Spokesman Spicer's comments stand,' the spokesperson said.

'This was just reconfirmed to the State Department from the White House and on to this embassy.'

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Thursday morning said details of the agreement were still being worked through but the deal remained.

'I am dealing with the official statements of the White House. I am not dealing with unofficial calls from unnamed people,' Ms Bishop told reporters in Sydney.

Mr Turnbull insisted relations between the nations remained strong.

'The alliance is absolutely rock solid. It's so strong,' he said.

Labor frontbencher Richard Marles said the prime minister must declare exactly what agreement he reached with Mr Trump.

'Labor supports this deal going ahead - and it's time Malcolm Turnbull stood up and levelled with Australians about whether he has a deal or not,' Mr Marles said.

'And if the prime minister doesn't know whether he has a deal, he needs to tell us what his plan is now that he has failed to stand up for Australia's interests and value.

[skeeter]

Donald Trump has blasted as 'dumb' a refugee deal between Australia and the United States, but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is confident the president won't backflip on their agreement. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/international/2017/02/02/turnbull-denies-trump--hang-up-.html#sthash.auNI5Gmv.dpuf



http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/international/2017/02/02/turnbull-denies-trump--hang-up-.html

Does the Post think a preponderance of its readers will be outraged because Trump is balking at taking another 1200 (or however many) of Australia's muslim rejects?

[Sanguine]

I sure hope he does reject that deal!