https://news.vice.com/story/trump-hangs-up-on-the-australian-prime-minister-after-tense-talks
A new season of VICE on HBO premieres February 24. read more Trump “hangs up” on the Australian prime minister after tense talks By David Gilbert on Feb 2, 2017 President Donald Trump reportedly berated the Australian prime minister during a phone call Saturday that ended abruptly less than halfway through its scheduled duration. Trump was said to be angry about a deal put in place by former President Obama that guaranteed the U.S. would take 1,250 refugees from an Australian detention center — a promise the new president called “the worst deal ever.” The call between Malcolm Turnbull and Trump came on the same day as the new U.S. president held phone calls with four other world leaders — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, French President François Hollande, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Given the deep ties between Australia and the U.S. in the past, the call with Turnbull was expected to be the most straightforward. Instead Trump described it as “the worst call by far” — according to senior White House officials speaking to the Washington Post. The call was scheduled to last for an hour, but Trump ended it after just 25 minutes. Late on Wednesday, Trump reasserted his strong opposition to the refugee program, calling it a “dumb deal” on Twitter, and promising to investigate it: The U.S. has pledged to take 1,250 refugees from Australian detention centres located on the island of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Many of the refugees held there come from Somalia, Iran, Iraq and Sudan – among the seven countries whose citizens Trump’s executive order bans from entering the U.S for the next 90 days.
