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'The worst call by far': Donald Trump badgers, brags in Malcolm Turnbull call

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Easily provoked person in the Oval Office hung up on Australia's Prime Minister half way thru a planned hour long call

'The worst call by far': Donald Trump badgers, brags in Malcolm Turnbull call

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

At one point, Mr Trump informed Mr 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".
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I wonder if the stress is already getting the guy. Combine this behaviour with what he said this past Friday during a call with Mexico's President, during which he seems to have threatened to invade Mexico.
Trump told Peña Nieto in last Friday’s call, according to the Associated Press, which said it reviewed a transcript of part of the conversation, “You have a bunch of bad hombres down there. You aren’t doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn’t, so I just might send them down to take care of it.”
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Little wonder the developed nations are beginning to wonder about stability in the world
 
Being overweight with small hands and a bad haircut will make one get all pouty and throw temperature tantrums.
 
Australia might send their surfers over here and out-dude us.
 
So President Obama makes a deal to take in these "refugees," which was concluded before November 12, 2016.

The Australian government said Sunday that it had reached a one-time agreement in which the United States would take in refugees who had been banished to a detention center on the tiny impoverished Pacific island nation of Nauru...He (Turnbull) gave little reassurance that the plan would be honored under President-elect Donald J. Trump. “We deal with one administration at a time,” Mr. Turnbull said.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/world/australia/australia-refugees-united-states.html?_r=0

According to both this article and the OP citation there were less than 1250 refugees (410 men, women and children on Nauru and 823 men on Manus). If these are the same refugees...couldn't Obama have made sure they came here in the 8 week period while he was still President?

I wonder why he didn't. :coffeepap:
 
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According to the Australian Department of Immigration, there are 383 detainees on Nauru and 871 on Manus, a total of 1,254 mostly from Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia, four of the seven countries on Trump’s temporary migration ban list announced on the weekend.
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Trump was right to hang up on Turnbull. What a ridiculous deal. Obama promises to import terrorists and Trump said no. Good for Trump.
 
Well, in my worst nightmares I never believed that any president of the US, even Trump, would talk to the leaders of other nations as if they were his subordinates, and inferior ones at that. This literally is terrible.
 
According to the Australian Department of Immigration, there are 383 detainees on Nauru and 871 on Manus, a total of 1,254 mostly from Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia, four of the seven countries on Trump’s temporary migration ban list announced on the weekend.
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Trump was right to hang up on Turnbull. It's a bad deal that was brokered by Obama, the clueless wonder. Let me guess, these terrorists were supposed to live on welfare for the rest of their lives and never learn English as part of the deal?
 
Somerville said:
Easily provoked person in the Oval Office hung up on Australia's Prime Minister half way thru a planned hour long call



I wonder if the stress is already getting the guy. Combine this behaviour with what he said this past Friday during a call with Mexico's President, during which he seems to have threatened to invade Mexico.

Little wonder the developed nations are beginning to wonder about stability in the world
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I fully expect Trump to be an image of Caligula, insane, paranoid, clutching onto power, distrusting those close to him, by the time this is all said and done.
 
Australia has been by far the toughest country of the world concerning undocumented immigrants. The Oz border is all shoreline so it has to be strict.

No matter which party is in government, the Aussies throw 'em in detention centers, toss 'em out of the country, head 'em off at sea starting at Christmas Island. The Oz constitution does not have a Bill of Rights or the 14th Amendment so things are radically different there.

Trump The Ignoramus has no clue.

USA is the biggest by far foreign investor in Australia, almost $500 billion of it. Oz hosts U.S. military at bases outside of Darwin and it will receive the B-1 stealth bomber. Australia has supported the United States with fighting troops from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. Oz is a formal mutual defense treaty ally of the USA.

While there are a certain number of jealous and infantile Aussies who wish the USA only ill-will, the vast majority support the U.S. And while its elites in politics and government have some surrender monkeys to CCP China, all political parties in Oz are reliable USA allies to a fault. PM Turnbull is weak on national security but continues the Oz policy of being super tough on immigrant intruders.

USA needs to continue to have Oz support in the South China Sea.


The leaks coming out of the Trump White House cast the president as a clueless child

Watch Donald Trump for any length of time and you'll see someone who exhibits traits consistent with a juvenile ego. He is obsessed with himself and his own appearances. He cannot tolerate criticism. When challenged he lashes out with insults generally favored by eight year olds. So a column by Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post that reveals White House insiders characterizing Trump as a "clueless child" may not come as a surprise. But it's still a troubling revelation that an American president behaves this way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...lueless-child/
 
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reinoe said:
Trump was right to hang up on Turnbull. What a ridiculous deal. Obama promises to import terrorists and Trump said no. Good for Trump.
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What do you think is going to happen now, when we need Turnbull's support in the future? And according to the article, the refugees will be granted entry, after the conversation.
 
HenryChinaski said:
Being overweight with small hands and a bad haircut will make one get all pouty and throw temperature tantrums.
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Trump... "The gloves come off!"

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reinoe said:
Trump was right to hang up on Turnbull. It's a bad deal that was brokered by Obama, the clueless wonder. Let me guess, these terrorists were supposed to live on welfare for the rest of their lives and never learn English as part of the deal?
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Too bad the cowardly draft-Dodger didn't meet some Australians in Vietnam who died for the USA .
 
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Media_Truth said:
What do you think is going to happen now, when we need Turnbull's support in the future? And according to the article, the refugees will be granted entry, after the conversation.
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How were we helping Australia in this scenario? Most of those terrorist sympathizers were from nations as part of the travel ban. Why would we take them just because they were being routed through Australian territory? That makes no sense.
 
DiAnna said:
Well, in my worst nightmares I never believed that any president of the US, even Trump, would talk to the leaders of other nations as if they were his subordinates, and inferior ones at that. This literally is terrible.
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Turncoat is an awful person.
 
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LOL Trump is hilarious. His real self is better than Alec Baldwin's portrayal in SNL. :lol:
 
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Somerville said:
Easily provoked person in the Oval Office hung up on Australia's Prime Minister half way thru a planned hour long call

I wonder if the stress is already getting the guy. Combine this behaviour with what he said this past Friday during a call with Mexico's President, during which he seems to have threatened to invade Mexico.

Little wonder the developed nations are beginning to wonder about stability in the world
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The report refers to "senior US officials"

That means it is fake news
 
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