Trump to Australia's prime minister: agreement between us "stupid" and will I teach

Trump to Australia's prime minister: agreement between us "stupid" and will I teach

US President, Donald Trump, said on Thursday he would consider "the agreement stupid" to receive hundreds of asylum seekers from Australia to the United States after a report published by the Washington Post for a dressing-down for the Australian Prime Minister and ending a phone call with him tense suddenly.

The Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, told reporters that the call on Saturday was characterized by frankness, but he refused to give further details about the conversation "special" that were traded on a large scale around the world.

Turnbull said, "I defend Australia. My job is to defend Australia's interests."

Turnbull refused to confirm a Washington Post report that Trump told him that he had spoken with the four leaders in the world on Saturday, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Mexican Enrique Peña Nieto, the two presidents, but the conversation between Trump and Turnbull "conversation was the worst so far."

The agreement was reached late last year between Australia - which fought a war alongside US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq - and the administration of former US President Barack Obama.

Few midnight Wednesday, Washington time before Trump wrote on Twitter, "Can you believe that? The Obama administration agreed to receive thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this idiot agreement."

Under the deal, Washington agreed to resettle up to 1250 asylum seekers are living in evacuation centers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

Australia will receive in return for refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

He was scheduled to be a conversation between them for an hour, but the paper said that Trump finished after 25 minutes when Turnbull tried to talk to other topics such as Syria. She added that Trump called the plan "as the worst deal" and accused Australia of trying to export "the perpetrators of the Boston attack next.