He reminds Trump that the number is 1,250 and that the refugees in question are not criminals.
President Trump called himself "the world's greatest person" in a phone conversation with Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, during which he attempted to refuse 1,250 refugees, according to recently leaked transcripts of the call. The transcript lays that bare, and more.
Much of Trump's call with Peña Nieto focused on his long-standing campaign pledge to build a southern border wall and having Mexico pay for it.
Trump seems mainly concerned with how this "deal" (he uses that word a lot, guys) will make him look.
"You can not say that to the press", Trump flat out told Peña Nieto about the latter's public stance against paying for the wall.
"There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal", Turnbull said. My people stand up and say, 'Mexico will pay for the wall, ' and your people probably say something in a similar but slightly different language. Or two years? Who are these people?
"We have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs because the drugs are being sold for less money than candy. You can not say that to the press because I can not negotiate under those circumstances". The alleged quote quickly received condemnation from Sen.
The prime minister also sought to downplay his admissions about discretion the USA has over refugee numbers.
In his discussion with Peña Nieto on January 27, he decried Mexican "drug lords" coming across the border and bringing drugs into US cities.
There is duplicity in Mr Turnbull's plea to Mr Trump to honour the deal struck previous year with then president Barack Obama for the USA to take up to 1250 refugees from the appalling camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
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But the transcript, the contents of which have not been denied by the Coalition government, shows Turnbull told Trump that the U.S. did not have to settle any of the asylum seekers, given it would go through its own vetting process. We have our San Bernardino's, we have had the World Trade Center come down because of people that should not have been in our country, and now we are supposed to take 2,000. Here I am calling for a ban where I am not letting anybody in and we take 2,000 people.
In the first days of Mr Trump's administration, Mr Turnbull was seeking an assurance from the new president that a deal struck with the previous Obama administration would be honoured.
He has also flagged big money for infrastructure spending and a city deal for Perth.
It started off ok, the pair chatting about mutual friend golfer Greg Norman "I guess our friend Greg Norman, he is doing very well?"
Mr Turnbull said the people in the camps would have been permitted to stay in Australia had they arrived, as most asylum seekers do, by plane and then transgressed their visas. 'I guarantee you they are bad.
On Sunday, Turnbull said that four people, suspected of preparing a plot to bring down an airplane, were detained during counterterror raids conducted in the Australian city of Sydney. "This is ridiculous", Trump says.
"I have had it", Trump said.
Trump ended up complaining: "I have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day".
This is even clearer in retrospect - Trump's capriciousness and his administration's dysfunction has only increased in the months since the phone call.
The White House declined to comment to the Post, which reported that an official familiar with the conversations said, "The president is a tough negotiator" who is "direct and forceful in his determination to put America and Americans first".
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