Malcolm Turnbull, Australian Leader, Pokes Fun at Trump in Leaked Recording<br />Mr. Trump abruptly ended the conversation and later posted on Twitter<br />that the agreement was a "dumb deal." In the leaked recording, Mr. Turnbull joked about the leaders’ first face-to-face meeting last month in New York, which had been preceded by much analysis about its potential awkwardness in light of the January call.<br />On Thursday, an Australian news network released a brief recording of Mr. Turnbull poking fun<br />at the president, at a dinner full of journalists that was supposed to be off the record.<br />that The Donald and I, we are winning and winning in the polls,<br />"It was the most beautiful putting-me-at-ease ever." Many Australian commentators thought Mr. Turnbull had come off as weak during<br />that meeting, and there was speculation Thursday that the recording was leaked deliberately to make him look less subservient to the president.<br />"It’s a breach of protocol, it’s a breach of faith and all those things,<br />but you know it’s lighthearted, it’s affectionate, good-natured, and the butt of my jokes was myself," Mr. Turnbull told a radio station.<br />During the call, Mr. Turnbull pressed Mr. Trump to honor an agreement, reached near the end of the<br />Obama administration, to accept hundreds of refugees from Australian offshore detention centers.
