DOWN UNDER BLUNDER : Trump Unloads — On Australia!... Tries To Shut Out Refugees Being Saved From ‘World-Infamous, Hardline Immigration Policy’... Report: Hung Up A Half Hour Early...The president reportedly berated Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and hung up a half-hour ahead of schedule. 02/01/2017 10:16 pm ET

SYDNEY ― Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday refused to talk about a report that a weekend call with President Donald Trump came to a blistering head after Trump attacked a plan to resettle refugees in the U.S. as “the worst deal ever.”

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The conversation between leaders of the two longtime allies quickly devolved into Trump accusing Turnbull of trying to send the “next Boston bombers” to America, according to a report published Wednesday night by The Washington Post. Trump, who told Turnbull he had spoken to other world leaders earlier Saturday, said the interaction was his “worst call by far” and hung up more than a half-hour early, the Post reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The two countries have been working on a plan to resettle up to 1,250 refugees in the U.S. who are now languishing in Australia’s offshore detention centers. The arrangements, completed in November, have been cast into doubt by the anti-immigration executive order Trump signed on Friday. 

Turnbull said at a news conference following the Post report that he wouldn’t talk about his call with Trump, saying it was “better these conversations are conducted candidly, frankly [and] privately.” more