Australia's prime minister speaks after his heated phone call with President Trump.

[kpete]

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-gday-mate-on-call-with-australian-pm-trump-badgers-and-brags/2017/02/01/88a3bfb0-e8bf-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.9b5929a6d3fe

[Horse with no Name]

1. Why can't we have decency??

I know. They hate us for our freedoms.

[NotThisTime]

8. because we don't elect civil people, we are on whole, insular, greedy and have no compassion

As an Aussie told me over night, that and the world hates us and we can go it on our own. We did this to ourselves. This is an Aussie I have known for several years, he doesn't sugar coat anything.

[Native]

2. "If you see reports of them (the conversations), I'm not going to "add" to them."

Code for, "They're accurate, but you won't hear that from me."

[rzemanfl]

4. Exactly. n/t

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

3. He didn't say much at all in that video. n/t

[SticksnStones]

5. "Not going to add to them"

Or dispute their veracity.

And that, my friends, is threading the needle of diplomacy.

I say well done sir. There's enough fuel on the fire.

And the world already knows that dt is ill-equipped for the presidency.

[Else You Are Mad]

6. The plus side here is...

That Trump is not smart enough to understand the implications of what the Prime Minister said.

[SticksnStones]

7. Not sure that really a 'plus' per se

Oh trumpy, you are in soooo far over your head.