U.S. President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Yahoo News: The Washington Post published transcripts of Trump’s colorful calls with 2 foreign leaders
Days after his inauguration, President Trump’s conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia show a president anxious to live up to the immigration tough talk he touted on the campaign trail.
Transcripts published by the Washington Post on Thursday of the calls between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull contained strikingly tense exchanges.
Predictably, Trump and Peña Nieto had markedly different views on whether Mexico is obligated to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. During the campaign, Trump constantly vowed that Mexico would pay for “100 percent” of the wall’s construction, but the president privately backed off that promise to Peña Nieto.
Despite the disagreement, Trump was friendly toward Peña Nieto, at one point telling him, “It is you and I against the world, Enrique, do not forget.” (He called both foreign leaders by their first names, rather than their titles, throughout both conversations. Both Peña Nieto and Turnbull addressed him as “Mr. President.”)
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WNU Editor: The Washington Post story is here .... ‘This deal will make me look terrible’: Full transcripts of Trump’s calls with Mexico and Australia (Washington Post). What's my take .... those who voted for President Trump are relieved that he is focused on the issues they voted him for. And for those who opposed him .... more proof that he is unfit for office and must be removed. As to what will be the consequence of these leaks .... which is what I am interested in .... these leaks are going to make any future telephone conversation between President Trump and any other foreign leader difficult to be arranged, and when it does happen, the other party is going to be reserved on what they are going to say knowing too well that maybe in a few months their talk will be posted on the Washington Post. International diplomacy lives and dies on people keeping their private communications private. And while this type of leaking does happen with diplomats/their cables/and their conversations, I do not recall ever reading a still classified telephone conversation between the U.S. President and a head of state. Bottom line .... the U.S President's ability to conduct foreign policy has just been severely limited.
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