Why are we pissing off all our allies? The funny thing about this is Pres Donnie’s twitter reaction about the Australian refugee agreement because this was announced in Nov 2016. Anyone who follows me on Fb/Twitter knows I posted the original story back then. The deal however is for those refugees “interested” in being moved to US facilities.. – PB/TK
Australia struggles to save refugee agreement after Trump’s fury at ‘dumb deal’ – Katharine Murphy in Canberra and Ben Doherty in Sydney
Australia is scrambling to save its agreement to resettle refugees in the US after Donald Trump raged publicly at “a dumb deal” and told the country’s prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in private it was the “worst deal ever”.
The US president took to Twitter late on Wednesday night in Washington to condemn the refugee swap and brand the asylum seekers held in camps on Nauru and Manus Island “illegal immigrants”.
His intervention came after the Washington Post reported that Trump had despaired of the deal when talking to Turnbull on Saturday afternoon (Sunday morning in Australia), told him that the conversation was the worst of his round of phone calls with world leaders that day, and then brought the 25-minute call to a close.
Continue to theguardian.com article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/02/australia-struggling-to-save-refugee-agreement-after-trumps-fury-at-dumb-deal
