SYDNEY - In the days after Donald Trump became United States president in 2017, he conducted the usual round of phone calls with world leaders and – perhaps surprisingly – had what he described as “the worst by far” with one of his country’s closest allies.
In a now infamous call with the then Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Malcolm Turnbull, the US president became infuriated and threatened to abandon a deal that Canberra had previously made with Washington to engage in a swop of refugees.
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