Posted on 02/01/2017 10:54:07 PM PST by goldstategop
WASHINGTON — A phone call between President Trump and the Australian Prime Minister is threatening to develop into a diplomatic rift between two stalwart allies after the two men exchanged harsh words over refugee policy, and Mr. Trump abruptly ended the call.
The phone call last Saturday between Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull turned contentious after the Australian leader pressed the president to honor an agreement to accept 1,250 refugees from an Australian detention center.
Late Wednesday night, Mr. Trump reiterated his anger over the agreement on Twitter. He called the agreement a “dumb deal” and blamed the Obama Administration for accepting it but then said that he would “study” it. The tweet was posted after The Washington Post reported details of the phone call.
The leaders of the two allies did not seem to agree on the outcome of the conversation. Mr. Trump’s tweet suggested the agreement could be at risk while Mr. Turnbull said that, despite the bluntness of the discussion, the United States had committed to upholding the arrangement.
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Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
Trump not happy over having to clean up Australia's mess!
Fake News.
Not really.
I tweeted Trump that we shouldn’t solve other countries problems for them.
In what world does that make sense?
The illegals need to go back to their home countries. Why do these people always flock to White countries?
The Washington Post version, if folks want a double dose
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3520275/posts
Title for post in #5 just above...
No ‘G’day, mate’: On call with Australian prime minister, Trump badgers and brags
Knowing how outspoken Australia has been regarding immigrants (be they legal or illegal) I find this to be nothing more than bird droppings left by the buzzard that just vacated the OO. Has that country been turned inside out just as BOB hoped to do to ours?
President Trump hold your ground, Sir.
Trump is doing what he said he would do. If you are not getting what you want in an negotiation, walk away. There is nothing good about a bad deal.
I have to wonder if this NEW YORK SLIMES article is as much FAKE NEWS as the ASSOCIATED PRESS article on Mexico was FAKE NEWS?
I remember when this mess first occurred.
Australia refused to accept 1,250 of the most vile Muslims.
Obama immediately announced that we would take them!
Now the mess falls to President Trump.
Yep, really. WaPo’s report on the US-Aussie conversation was as accurate as AP’s US-mexico one.
Whether America takes them or not (and I don’t think you should) it would be really nice if the misinformation stopped being spread.
Not all refugees are Muslims. A significant number of them are Middle Eastern Christians fleeing Muslim oppression.
It is very likely that that is who these people are.
Australia won’t openly say so, because under our laws, you can’t classify refugees by religion and the High Court would go insane if the government openly said that that was part of this deal.
the “fake news” meme has only really been around since the election, and it’s already been used to death.
Except the MSM tried to pretend it was bloggers and Russians and conservative sites propagating the sh*t. It is the MSM, they’ve been caught redhanded, time and time again. See the Mexico thread below this one.
It’s not fake news. It’s deliberately lying.
Misspoke-lie
Fake news-lie
They need to start sinking the refugee boats .
Yes , I know it’s a cruel thought , but this mass surge of
so-called refugee movement around the world simply cannot be allowed to continue and be tolerated and facilitated .
Peoples need to stay in their native lands and work things out there . Especially muslims .
After a short while they would stop trying to come .
The Med is another place . It is insane for the Euros to encourage that . They will soon have majority populations of
Africans in ALL their countries .
It’s national suicide .
The so-called refugees have no right to invade other people’s counties .
They are invaders without guns , but the outcome will be the same . Loss of the native lands of those being invaded .
The will breed like rabbits . Australia , of all places , should know about rabbits
So many posters around here have misused and abused the term so much, it's begun to lose all meaning. It's starting to and on the same character as the epithet, 'racist!'.
Don’t want to hurt no kangaroos.
Except this is FAKE NEWS. The call was courteous and ended courteously. The media is claiming Trump hung up on the PM.
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/international/2017/02/02/turnbull-denies-trump—hang-up-.html
nice!
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